Bokeo Reserve has proven to be a place that moves a lot... Let's start from the beginning then! As I mentioned to you before, I signed up for the Gibbon Experience, which is based in the Lao rain forest in the Bokeo Province (just across from the Thai border). The idea is that you trek through the jungle, clip yourself to a zip cord high above the trees and zip to the next base (just like in The Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, promise!). Then, you trek some more and zip again and you keep on doing so until you reach your tree house. Our group turned out to be a complete melting pot: Brits, a Swede, a Dutchman, an American (west side rocks), a couple of Germans, French Canadians and a Pole of course. And there
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