Jungle Flight & Night Market

Today we went into the jungle for a Jungle Flight! Which was essentially zip lining with one "rollercoaster" and one rappel. It was a lot of fun for me and the few others who aren't sick to their stomachs.. Guess there's a bug going around! At least 13 people were vomiting, some kind of 24hr bug hopefully. A few had it the other day and it's just spread. So far I'm okay! Hoping that whatever I was battling on the slowboat was the same thing and I just don't get it. I'm so grateful that I never seem to get the vomiting symptoms of stomach bugs even when others do. Knock on wood! We had to pull the van over once on our way for someone to vomit and twice on the way home. I feel so bad for them! But at the same time secretly happy that I'm not joining them... I did take it easy the last few days listening to what my body needs, of which I'm glad I did!

Anyway, the Jungle Flight itself was pretty cool. We were given t shirts and lunch afterwards as part of the package. There were about 12 lines we did I think? The first was the rollercoaster which was a metal track that you attached some wheels to and rode down hanging onto handlebars above your head. It was probably the most terrifying part of the experience, I didn't like it all that much because you're swinging around corners and it feels like you're going to swing right into trees while the track sounds like it's going to fall apart everytime your wheels go over a joint. It just wasn't all that pleasant lol. To me at least, others loved it though! The next 10 or so lines were all ziplines as you'd expect! And a ton of fun :) my favourite one was the... 1700m? long one! It went over a valley and you had clear, uninterrupted views of the entire jungle and mountain range! It was stunning. Wish I had some way to take photos! But I left my phone in a locker, didn't want to risk that :) the end of the experience was a rappel down about 50 M from a tall tree. It was cool but slightly disappointing how slow it went.. I guess it's for safety reasons but would have been much more exhilarating with more speed! Clearly I don't have any fear of heights haha. They called that one the happy ending, and it marked the end of the tour. The guides were all so happy and friendly, it was a good experience!

After we finished eating we returned to the hotel and got ourselves cleaned up before heading out to the sunday night market. It was a pretty cool market I suppose, kind of more of the same that we've seen with a few variations in items they were selling. I bought myself a tshirt dress, now I'll have something different to wear lol. I came to SE Asia with the expectation I could easily buy shorts but that had not been the case.. So I've had one pair to get me through, good thing I got used to pants in hot weather in Nepal! I also bought a few things for some friends and ate some awesome Mac and cheese, pork ok a stick, corn, and drank some good Thai tea. I will say the food at these markets is the best!! I would go to them anytime just for that :)

After the market we went back to pack up our bags and get ready for the jungle trek tomorrow! That will be fun :D if my knee survives. Kayla and I decided we weren't ready for bed yet though and went out to the Mexican place for some margaritas. We met up with Josh and a girl we met at the market randomly, and margaritas turned into going to back to backpackers alley and then to spicy... It was a really fun night though! I didn't drink too much and had fun watching all the drunk people lol. Hilarious. So many random people we talked to.. Including convincing a couple strangers to shotgun beers with us, was good times :)Read more