Zip wiring jungle fun

We survived! This morning was fantastic! We booked to go to a zip wire assault course which has 35 platforms and includes jumps, rope ladders and many other challenges as well as the zip wires themselves. We were nervous to start with but the feeling of flying through the trees is just incredible so we soon began to love it. That was until we had to jump off a ledge to drop down. It was only 15 metres but it seemed so much more from above! We both screamed the whole way. We then discovered that the last activity is a 40m drop off a platform to the finish below. We did freak out a little by the prospect of this. When we made it to this last stage we were the last two to do it so had to watch as all the others screamed and fell downwards to the cushion below. I'm not sure this really helped with the nerves! Finally it came to Nick's turn and he was hoisted out sat down but for some reason there was an issue below so he wasn't dropped straight away and hang there for a good 30 seconds. I'm sure this didn't help him at all! Lastly came myself and I asked the guy to go fast but not too fast at which he joked that he'll make it go super fast. I feel this was a bad thing to say as it resulted in him swinging me around about 10 metres from the ground after the drop over everyone's heads before he finally let me down. It was an amazing but terrifying experience and it was surreal actually free falling without your harness pulling on you to start with. The instructors we had were amazing. They'd just hop past jump and clip onto a wire and within a second they're zoom down it. On the 40m drop the guy who was dropping everyone ended by jumping off the platform and falling upside down like spiderman and stopping just a metre or so above the cushion. What a cool job they have! The trip included a buffet lunch which we made full use of and we even got t shirts and certificates too! After we came back we chilled out for a bit before heading to the market to look for some new sandals for me. We spent a good couple of hours wondering around exploring all the weird and wonderful stalls. We decided to try the night market but found out it doesn't open until 7 so we came back instead and went for dinner at an organic restuarant near by which was recommended to us by our guest house host. We haven't planned this part of our journey all. We have a flight to Bali on the 20th of June but that's all we have so this has given us some freedom and with that in mind we found a great place to visit up north so have booked a mini bus to go there the day after tomorrow. It's fun actually travelling the way most people do with little to no planning in advance so here's hoping it all works out.Read more