I Saw a Gibbon

I'm going to stop talking about my sleeping patterns on here now, because I'm sleeping fine. This morning we went to N House again for breakfast. Omelettes with toast as per usual. We have become regulars at the place. Then it's back to the guest house lobby to wait for the Flight of the Gibbon bus. Flight of the Gibbon is a zip-wire adventure course up in the trees of the rainforest - that's what we have planned for today. We are the first to be picked up and it's an actual minibus with air-con and even a DVD player. I don't have any DVD's, but the point is that it's better than the tow-truck-bus things we've been traveling in. It takes an hour to get there.

Off we go gliding through the rainforest, going from tree to tree. It rains, but not too badly, and it's cooling. The weather has been really hot and it hasn't rained since that day in Bangkok. The guides who take us round are friendly. One of them says I look like I'm from Israel and that Rachelle looks like Miss World. On the way round we see a family of Gibbons; Dad, mum and baby.

Once we are done swinging through the trees, we are taken for a small trek up to a waterfall. It's pretty, but having been to a massive one on the Tuesday, it was comparatively average and you couldn't even swim in it.

lastly, we were sat by a stream in a small outdoor restaurant and were brought food. It was all you can eat rice, chicken curry with potato, melon and salad. It was really nice and I had two big portions - the biggest meal so far. There are free men playing music for us. They look like they are going insane from playing the same thing over and over again.

That night we went to a bar for food and a couple of drinks. Then we moved on to a patch of bars aimed at tourists. We haven't been there all week because we aren't here for the heavily plagued by tourists stuff and they charge more for drinks, but tonight we check it out - only for one drinks worth of time. There are two Thais doing a fire shows and I briefly became part of it when I'm asked to hold on end of a chain which has fire in the middle of it. The Thai, holding the other end, spins it round, making it look like a circle of fire. I tip him after the show.