Song Saa

Song Saa Private Island is a private-island resort spanning two jungle-topped islands in Cambodia's Koh Rong archipelago. Song Saa occupies two small islands, Koh Ouen and Koh Bong, known locally as the sweethearts, in Cambodia's Koh Rong Archipelago, connected to each other by a footbridge over the country's first marine protected area. Twenty-seven villas, some wrapped around jungle trees and others suspended on stilts above the sea, come with a private plunge pool and indoor and outdoor showers.

An Australian couple, Rory and Melita Hunter, found the islands in 2005 stripped by overfishing and littered with washed-up rubbish; they bought and rehabilitated them before opening the resort in 2012. The reef the Hunters worked to restore is now part of Cambodia's first national marine park, and you can join conservation staff to see how coral is being grown back, trek through the resort's mangrove forest, or take a boat to the local fishing village to see the waste-management and sustainable-farming projects the Song Saa Foundation has set up there.