Welcome to Gee’s Nature Tours!
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable”, Rainer Marie Rilke – Letters to a young poet.
This quote beautifully sums up what we are about at Gee’s Nature Tours. Nature is amazing, if you just take the time to stop and examine it.
If you are interested in nature and want to immerse yourself in it, and you are in or coming to Cambodia, then you have come to the right place. We will take you on tours in weird and wonderful places, explaining as much as we can about what we see along the way, including “the small things hardly noticeable”.
We are interested in bigger things, too, but it important to set expectations appropriately. Seeing large animals in Cambodia is difficult. We will try and we are working on ways to improve the chances. For example, most of our tours are based around camping out in nature, with night time activities, in the hope of seeing nocturnal creatures.
I am Gerard Chartier (a.k.a. Gee) and I am a very keen (some might say, “obsessed”) amateur naturalist. I am an Englishman, who has been living in Cambodia since 2009. I have always had an interest in nature but it did not really develop until I came to Cambodia and was so immersed in nature at Rainbow Lodge (an eco-lodge in Tatai Commune, Koh Kong Province), where I lived for eight years. I was first attracted by the beautiful butterflies here and started photographing them. My curiosity was piqued and I wanted to find out what species they all are. That was the start of my efforts to learn about and document as much of the nature around here as I can. I have been doing so ever since. There is still so much to be done!