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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Jungle Trek - Malaysia

First of all we would like to say that a jungle trek is not easy. As we wrote earlier we found it quite hard to know where we were going, as you are surrounded by overarching trees, disappearing paths and some quite steep climbs. However, when we first tried it out we were in the relatively cool Cameron Highlands. Having bravely faced up to those challenges, why not head to the National Park Tama Negara, where temperatures are never below 30 degrees C and the humidity is around 80%? And as we're there, why not go along this wobbly bridge that takes you through the rainforest at a height of 30m?
Seemed like a good idea, seen it on all the posters, got the camcorder, camera, digital camera, poncho, first aid kit, ready.
Well, it IS quite high, AND you had to wait for 2 hours, so we decided to do it the following day.
It goes without comment that by then Martine had decided that it is a silly thing to do, far too long, far too high, why would anybody volunteer to walk along these 500m at top end of the trees to look down, if you can stand there, feet on the ground and look up. So, we climbed another mount... hill instead, which proved to be quite a challenge with this climate anyway, sweating before, during and after the shower, in fact constantly dripping. Of course we got lost again and had to wave down a boat to take us back to the village, where we bought a poster of the bridge and a ticket to take us out of the jungle.

1 Comments:

At 11:04 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, that's a shame! Coming all that way to the bridge and not crossing it! Hope you won't regret it all your life... Wou may have sensed a very small stitch of jealousy here, well, yeah, you might be right. But then, reading your cool stories while sitting in rainy Luxembourg (no sunshine for a month!!!), what else would you imagine...

 

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