Friday 4th April - Day 61

This has nothing to do with monkeys of any kind. It's a day trip to a forest with very tall trees. We wear a climbing harness and fly from tree to tree on what's called a zip line. This is a thin heavy duty steel cable. We attach a cable, that has a pulley at the end of it, from our harness to the main cable and slide, at speed, through the air as though sitting in a chair while dangling from the cable. It is all extremely safe thanks to the professional guides helping us. However, when you are a hundred foot in the air with nothing under your feet it can be a little scarey. For a fearless person, you would gently hold onto your cable and let the pulley do the work. For someone who is afraid of heights it's probably a non starter. But if you dare, there's a tendency to want to want pull yourself up towards the cable while your sliding along.

At the end of the first run I felt as though I had just been arm wrestlling an adult gorilla never mind a gibbon! There are about ten slides to do and you get to abseil down twice. An eight year old girl in our group puts the rest of us seven adults to shame. While we're gathering ourselves for the next slide, she's wanting to get to the front of the queue so she can go first.

Later we have lunch and are then we're taken to a waterfall. This one is one waterfall, but is in about seven stages. There are small drops of about thirty feet or so to little pools. A staircase has been cut into the side of the hill to allow you to climb near the top. It's quite steep so it's a bit of an effort getting to the top.

This is one more thing to which I can say: seen it, done it, got the t-shirt.

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