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Woke up at 11 and went to eat at the floating restaurant on the river! Rice here is spiiiicy!
Took the river taxi to the other side of the river where the national park is, it costs 20p! When we arrived there's a five star jungle resort as you walk off the paddy! We should be staying here the little huts look amazing! We did pass the water tank though that they use for shower water and it's full of frogs! So on second thought maybe were lucky our pond water shower is uninhibited!
Were not doing a tour trek again we just want to walk around the leach infested jungle on our own and go to the canopy walkway! It's the longest in the world at 500 something metres length and 20 metres above ground level.
We got to the info kiosk and found out it was closed today for reconstruction! They're making it longer and more robust! How annoying when we're only here for today and we came specifically to do this! :(
So walked around the forest alone anyway and went on a 4km track to get us to to the top of a hill with supposedly Panoramic views of the steamy forest! we never made it! Walked around forever and ever circling ourselves getting lost in all kinds of directions and a lot of the park was closed for construction!! :(
We saw monkeys swinging from branch to branch and can hear lots of birds and bugs! It sounds like there's helicopters going overhead when the beetles all start flapping there wings! And it's weird how the trees and leaves are all camouflage!! I always wondered why the camouflage pants you see in the army and stuff have white brown and kaki patches but every tree and leaf in this rainforest looks the same! It's weird! Look at the cover photo for proof!
We walked up 60 Billion stairs to get to the canopy walkway. Stairs in the middle of the rainforest are such a let down! I'd rather jump from tree to tree like a monkey but I guess it's so wet and muddy here, there's been some broken necks in the past!
Then boiling hot, wearing our full length clothes, (thick cotton chinos - in a boiling hot, humid rainforest) covered up from all the leaches We decided to head back! Gutted I didn't see a tiger though :(
If I'd have known that the bridge was down we should have done a night time trek through here, it's more thrilling when it's dangerous and apparently all the eyes of the nocturnal creatures light up and follow you around at night!! Creepy!
That's another thing that annoyed me too, when we went to Penang last week and took the train up the hill, you can trek at night time to see the forest light up! All the leaves and flowers of certain species all glow under the moonlight and it's supposedly epic to watch it lit up like pandora from Avatar! I wanna go back and live there immediately! If never heard any of this before though but Bella told me shed done it and stole a few flowers which continued to glow for a day and then died the next! How cool is that!!
Anyway went home to get showered, and have tea then booked the bus to Perhentian islands tomorrow! We leave at 8:00am and the nicer guy ended up giving us the discount! He said his boss was just in a mood last night when he denied us! Annie's flirtatious skills are not up to scratch!
Got back to write blogs and couldn't sleep due to the hill tribe of 60 teenage local forest boys congregating outside our dorm all night! The thunder and rain was so heavy and loud it's like someone starting up a lorry next to your bed... Crazy! Glad we didn't do that nighttime trek after all!
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