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Thailand
Mar2004-09-14 16:16:21
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as soon as he stops ‘singing’ because then he is able to hear us. Sound to me lie a children’s game we played at kindergarten with music and chairs... when the music stops you have to sit on a chair as soon as possible. After have an hour stopping and walking over a small dirt track like a video clip of Michael Jackson we see the Gibbon. The track is leading us steep onto the mountain and its difficult to stand next to each other, but just as he notices us and swings from branch to branch to get out of our are I am able to catch him on camera. After walking through a small river for an hour we stand on top of a 100 m high waterfall. Our guide tells us we are going down here along the steep waterfall. I think to myself that if Indiana Jones can do these things I certainly can also. So we start abseiling from a large slippery boulder and crossing the white water of the waterfall. Raymond did this ones at a camp in Wales and really ‘walks’ down like our guide. The descent continues over a small mud track (is there a track?!?) while grasping ourselves to various roots and sliding over boulders and through mud. Half an hour later we are looking up from the bottom of the waterfall... could Indiana Jones have done this? Jungle Jack and Jill get changed for a swim while our guide is preparing a lunch that he bought this morning at the market. The water is cool and very refreshing while the fishes try to eat Raymond’s hairs of his leg. During lunch our two additional team members try to explain the difference between the words ‘monkey’, ’ape’ and ‘primates’. She is a biologist, specilized in "monkey behaviour", must be very interesting for her to see these ‘life; ('Makake') monkeys... or must I say ‘apes’?
After lunch it takes another 3 hours hiking, descending and slipping over rocks in the water before we are back at the guesthouse where the cool beer tastes very well.
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