We decided to do the Canopy walk followed by a trek though the jungle to Teresek hill and back. A total of about 4.5 hours walking. The Canopy walk was great though not as scary as I had expected. You walk across a series of ladders and planks suspended on trees about 30 - 40 feet above the jungle. Its a little bit shaky but very safe.
We then climbed Teresek hill to a view point. The main problem is the humidity. Any sort of exercise in these conditions makes you sweat profusely. Within the first few minuets you are soaked.
On the way back down the rain started and shortly after the leaches attacked. Little brown worm like leaches sprang from the undergrowth onto our shoes and then made their way to our socks and inside our shoes to suck our blood. You don't really feel them until they get a good grip on you. They can be removed by simply pulling them without any problem except they then try to stick to your fingers. Myself and Alexander must have had about a dozen bites each and it was a bit of a blood bath when we took our socks of at the end. Lind had sprayed some deet on her socks and shoes and although she had leaches in her socks she didn't get bitten.
We were all pretty soaked by the time we got back. Not so bad as you are only wet not cold.
We spent the evening trying to recover the photos from Linds digital camera which she accidentally deleted.
It rained all night and we very were glad we weren't spending the night in a jungle cave.
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