Blogs from Bokèo Nature Reserve, West, Laos, Asia - page 5

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The Gibbons Experience! This is possibly the most amazing thing we've ever done. We we're only in the jungle for two nights but we could have stayed for weeks. We arrived at a small village in the mountains by jeep and then continued on foot to a jungle camp. Once there, we were given a harness to put on. After playing for a good while with the pet monkies and rescued baby bear we headed further into the forest. One tree we came to had a large steel cable tied to it. Our guides then told us to attach our harness to the cable and jump off the wooden platform. As you glide along the cable, the jungle wizzes past you and then suddenly falls away beneath you! You're cruising above the canopy when you ... read more

“I am travelling through South-East Asia for four weeks” “Cool” “… with my Mum.” “…………..are you having a good time?!?” Yep, in deeed, you people who have doubtfully been asking me those question, (I am not referring to the ones who were still interested in talking to me!) don’t have a f****** clue what you’re missing out on! Of course travelling is about exploring all these beauties in the world, meeting people, living without restrictions and responsibilities, feeling free and being far away from the restricting daily life….and all this seems contradictory to taking your Mum along (impersonating all those things you are fleeing from). It started off a little different for me as I hadn’t seen mine for more than 4 months and was looking forward to see her. (Although the thought of 4 weeks ... read more

Well me and linda thought we would take the easy way and join a group to cross the border into laos. It all started off ok with a nice bus to the border,where we then got our visas. Well, as we crossed the border we realized that we had been charged an extra 15 dollars for our visa than we had to pay an additional fee because it was after hours to crossing the borders. We cross and get briefed onto our plans for crossing the border. There were no atms in town so we were forced to exchange money through the travel company, at a very low rate. We were also told we could exchange money at the border. Luckily some vey nice british girl loaned us money otherwise me and linda would have been ... read more

One of the things I love about backpacking is the absence of planning, you can pretty much decide whatever you want to by each day and can happily rely on recommendations by all the fellow travellers you meet. One recommendation that was constantly recurring with gusto was this thing called 'The Gibbon Experience' in northern Laos. This is the brainchild of a european who set up the projest as a way to protect the rainforest from poaching and logging which was very prevalent here. The idea is that you go and live in treehouses 'flying' through and above the forest on a series of zip lines in search of the black gibbon monkey - once thought extinct untill they were rediscovered in 1997 (dont say you dont learn anything on this blog). The reality is that ... read more