“We didn’t set out with the grand plan to buy an island and build a luxury resort there,” Hunter tells Options over the phone. He is in Hong Kong, where he and Melita are mostly based nowadays. “It really was a chance encounter with a guy nearly 15 years ago, who told us of an island off the coast with beautiful white sandy beaches and virgin rainforests, and it all sounded a little too good to be true.” But they had to see it for themselves. So, they found someone to charter a boat for them, and spent two weeks circumnavigating the archipelago off the coast of Cambodia.
SINGAPORE (Nov 25): It was a serendipitous accident that set Rory Hunter and his wife, Melita, on the path towards Song Saa Private Island — Cambodia’s first luxury coastal resort — and more than a decade later, Hunter still speaks of Song Saa with wonder.
The award-winning Song Saa Private Island, which opened in 2012, is considered a pioneer in conservation-based luxury tourism in Cambodia’s Koh Rong Archipelago. Today, it is a widely known private resort that combines conservation and environmentally responsible tourism.
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