Name: Mondulkiri Elephant & Wildlife Sanctuary - L.E.A.F Cambodia
Address: Pum Puram, Romnear valley, Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, Krong Saen Monourom, Cambodia, KH
Telephone: +855 97 659 1101

Mondulkiri Elephant & Wildlife Sanctuary - L.E.A.F Cambodia is a zoo, located at Pum Puram, Romnear valley, Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, Krong Saen Monourom, Cambodia. They can be contacted via phone at +855 97 659 1101, visit their website www.mondulkirisanctuary.org for more detailed information.

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Pum Puram, Romnear valley, Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, Krong Saen Monourom

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Added by Jopie, at 12 July 2015

Monday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Derek Stokes

09 April 2018

Really good day tour. Our guide (Handsome Man) was great fun at all the right times, and also full of historical and cultural information about the local indigenous people, and the area, and obviously also about all the work they do at the sanctuary.
Borin Hy

17 December 2017

Offering western food and mondulkiri coffee with affordable price. Morning and evening will be good but afternoon will be hot.
Meriem C

18 October 2017

Awesome ! Animals looks like they are well treated, our guide was great!
Eric Mann

26 September 2017

We were a small Group of 5 Person and our guide was a really nice funny one. Sure the Elephant was already waiting with us and the "machut" was there to be sure we are Safe. We did a nice hiking and get a nice meal in the Camp. The bathing was nice even with heavy Rain. (maybe the Elephants did not enjoy the bathing cause of the raimd too). At all this was one of the best experience in cambodia so far). Thanks to our guide nani? And all the people we met in the Camp.
Alexander Shlotov

29 June 2017

I was unsatisfied. All items we did. But elephants came so late to bathing, guide said what mahut lost them, difficult to believe. We just lost 2.5 hours. Another items was nice.
Feroza Saheb

25 May 2017

Don't trust their tripadvisor reviews
Terrible volunteering experience

I am a traveller from the UK. The Mondulkiri elephant and wildlife sanctuary instructed i write a review on trip advisor in order to be able to "register" to volunteer with them. When I wanted to start volunteering they said I couldn't start until the next day. The next day came and they told me I couldn't start until the day after again. They told me and my friend alot of lies about when we could start.

My aim was to do 3 days of volunteering helping the elephants. We were limited with time.

Their aim was to get us to blog on as many websites as possible about their NGO.

My aim was to do 3 days volunteering and they agreed accommodation and food is included. They made us wait until the next day to start, so I had to pay one night accommodation, then they wanted us to wait an additional day to start, hence paying accommodation again. That was eating into the limited time we had helping out at the sanctuary and them delaying our start was making it difficult for us to plan the rest of our trip.

I just wanted to volunteer with the elephants. They made us pay $75 to do a two day elephant and trekking tour before we could volunteer. Then once they had our money and a good review on trip advisor they didn't let us start volunteering when we wanted to, despite Pre-agreeing this at their office prior to the tour.

My experience with the elephant sanctuary, the guides and the elephants was good. They do seem to treat the elephants ethically. But my experience with the LEAF NGO volunteering was very negative and disappointing.

They just want the volunteers to do things their way or the highway and are not considerate to the good natured, patient volunteers who have limited time but who genuinely want to help with the elephants in the limited time they have.

I cancelled the volunteering contract they made me sign the night before as they lied several times to us thereafter. We told them what we thought (i.e everything above) and how dissapointed we were that they wouldn't let us start volunteering, we were instead blamed for being rude and hostile.

I would recommend given our recent experience to think twice before offering to volunteer with the LEAF ngo.

Be weary of them asking you to write a trip advisor review as a condition of "registering" as a volunteer.

Be weary of them making you pay for a two day trekking tour as a Pre-requisite to volunteering.

Be weary of them trying to control your vision of volunteering with the elephants by requesting you blog for them rather than help the elephants.

They will now reply to this comment and claim I'm rude and a liar. That's OK it's up to you if you want any involvement with them.
Ugnė Čer

11 May 2017

Amazing experience and ethical treatment of the animals!

I am so glad we chose L.E.A.F project - the whole experience was a highlight of our Southeast Asia trip. No unethical treatment of the elephants - they just roam around freely, follow your sugarcane stick and overall are curious as long as you hold that cugarcane stick in your hands :)) We saw 3 elephants all together. The guide was extra knowledgeable and helpful. Nice walk through the fields, loads of information and loads of time with elephants.
Just don't wear your light coloured clothes - red mud is extra hard to wash off.

For those who say that elephant owners are "rude" with elephants - you can't talk in a playful "mummy" voice with any animal (dog trainers understand that!) and hope they'll pay attention. Nature follows Alpha leaders only. The little man has to sound harsh to appear strong, big, serious and restpectful. But no sticks or beating or threatening and no other abusive actions were carried out.
Respect to the whole crew for a great job!
Ricarda Peter Reiseblog Ricardachaos

02 March 2017

Terrible Experience

The tour started very well. We got dropped off on the side of the road and we started walking across grass fields and over hills with our tour guide Tom. He explained some very interesting facts about the local flora and fauna. We kept hiking and exploring plants until midday. Slowly, we got suspicious. Is he flaying time? We haven't seen a single animal, not an elephant nor other animals, so far.
Right before we finally "found" one elephant, Tom shouted out loud, "I found the elephant!". It was before he was actually able to see the large animal. Except Tom is one of the fortunate people who is able to look around corners.
He only saw the guy who was leading the elephant with a large wooden pole in his hand sitting on a rock beside the track very angry looking. We didn't find the elephant there in the woods by accident. The animal was lead there by his leader.
We were allowed to feed bananas to the elephant. That was our only close up interaction with this elephant for the whole day after all. The elephant wasn't allowed to get too close to us. Because it is dangerous, they told us. To keep space between us and the giant, the elephant leader shouted out very loud and rude sounding commands and threatened the animal with the pole he carried in his hands and if this wasn't enough he grabbed the elephant very hard by the ear and pulled it backwards.
Somebody of our group asked about the other elephants in the sanctuary. Because the office in town advertises the sanctuary with about 5 elephants. Tom answered, that they were on a wedding.
I went through many reviews from the past written by people who participated in a tour like ours and they always reported about 1 or 2 elephants they have seen on the whole tour. And there is always somebody with the elephant, leading it. They carry a wooden pole to threaten the elephant, to hit it with it.
The next point on our one day adventure was going back to the camp. That meant, we went ahead and the elephant with the elephant leader followed us. Of course, loudly shouted commands and threats towards the elephant.
After lunch and our group was done swimming. We were supposed to give the elephant a bath. The elephant couldn't or didn't want to go in the water. The elephant leader yelled at him. He forced him down a big, steep step into the water. The elephant screamed while sliding downhill into the water. Almost fell over and screamed even louder. It was horrible to even look at.
When the elephant was in its weakest position, almost falling over, the elephant leader jumped on its back and lead him into deeper water. He forced him to go down and take a bath, always threatening with the wooden pole in his hand.
They tell us, that elephants love taking a bath. But this elephant didn't like a bath in this moment. And that’s the whole point of being free. To take a bath when the elephant wants to take a bath. Not when we force the elephant to it.
But at this point, I don't want to miss out to tell you about the monkey which lives in the camp.
There was a dog carrier where they locked him up while no visitors were around. I saw one of the residents of the village kicking the monkey in the face. Another resident shot him with a airgun while we were right there.
And I don't want to miss out to tell you, is a perfect business idea. The volunteers are preparing everything for the 1 and 2 day groups. Means, tourists cook for tourists while paying top Dollar for working there which includes cooking, washing dishes and building houses.
These elephants in this "sanctuary" aren't as free as people from the tour office advertise. They are still used as work elephants and they are just rented out for the time to show them to the tourist groups.
Marion Eckert

15 January 2017

I am volunteering here right now. The staff there is pretty nice and friendly. They organise tours to see the elphants, feed them and go with them for a bath. All of the elephants enjoying happyly their retirement. You can as well go for a jungle hike. I stayed as a volunteer inside of the sanctury which is located in the middle of the jungle. There I sleept in a traditional bunong hut, which is the housing of a minority of this region, which is a pretty basic accomodation. I loved the sound of the nature during the hole stay and the feeling of peace and silence. Compared to other elephant projects they charged a reasonable price for my budget.
Mario Lanwert

06 January 2017

Im right now on my third day and until now it was really amazing. At the first day we did some hiking to explore the nature and we visited some bunong farmers (the minority in mondulkiri). At the second day we searched the elephants and walked with them and went with them to the elephant pool to wash and scrub them. On both days you can swim in waterfalls. The accomodation is a traditional hut with hammock or matress. So no luxus, all basic but if you like nature its amazing. Particulary the fires we made every evening to relax and spent some time talking have been amazing.

PS : They have two small cats in the sanctuary, sooo cute *-*
Sokha Sophan

24 November 2016

Good place to hang out, social hub with free tea, coffee. You can refill water bottles here.
Sheery Dancona

19 July 2015

I volunteered there a few months ago. Lovely forest, nice visitor center and tour for an important cause.