Phnong Tribe

Phnong are live in simple life and simple house in Modulkiri. Mondulkiri is Cambodia’s largest and also its most thinly populated eastern frontier province with only 40,000 inhabitants made mainly of hill tribes. The largest ethnic minority among them are the Phnong who live off the land, still practicing shifting cultivation (slash and burn). They plant rice, fruit trees, coffee, rubber and cashew nuts and hunt wild animals. Although more and more houses are built in 'Khmer style'. In the houses there are big jars and traditional gongs. The Phnong are believe for 2,000 years ago and are deeply animistic, believing that all things, animate and inanimate, have spirits.