Kerangan Mong

Dear travel journal,
Back to the rainforest today. The part of the trip we have all been looking forward to the most. Up early for breaky, loaded into the vans and went shopping for snacks and mattresses. Once we got what we needed we were off. We drove for two hours ish and ended up at batangi resort jetty. Here we split off. Alvin and Christina took Sam, callum, Anne and Paul up the river with all of the provisions. While Kirsty, maria, Jason, Julie and phil booked into the Aiman. Batang Ai Resort, Lubik Antu. However, to get to the resort we first had to get into a little boat for half an hr that took us over to where the resort was. Which was nice, its awesome being back out into these waters. The resort is a bit swish. They didn't have our rooms ready so we sat around in the lounge and chatted while they got them sorted. Which is totally weird because all day we seriously saw a grand total of like 4 other guests. Once the rooms where ready we checked in and got settled and then while maria and Jason had a sleep, the rest of us went up to the pool and had a dip and chillaxed in the shade and saw a butterfly the size of a dinner plate. After we cooled off we had lunch and then headed back to our rooms. I did all my washing and hung it out along the fence of the front balcony of the long house and played with my camera and fell asleep for an hour. Around 4.30pm Jason, Julie and I headed back to the main building and went on a canopy walk. The other three aren't keen on heights so decided they would stay behind. It was about a 1k walk up hill to the canopy walk. The canopy walk was some netting and rope tied between 2 trees with ladders laid down between them and a plank of wood across the top. It was 150meters across and 50 meters up. At the start there was a little platform that you had to get to by climbing up a ladder that was tied in by rope lol. The view was pretty the lake one side and the mountains the other. And another ladder tied to the other end to get down. Then it was about another 1km walk back. The whole way up and down the guide kept stopping and talked about the trees and which ones were edable and we stopped at a headhunter chiefs grave of the local tribe who is still visited by his ancestors on his passing anniversary. Its been 200 years since the last traditional headhunter. It was a nice little walk. Then I walked around the resort a little and took loads of pictures of the scenery and sun setting. Then back to the room to organise my cloths and bags and then we headed up to the restaurant for dinner. We sat and ate and then moved down the balcony to sitting chairs. The geckos were huge and by the dozen and the sparrows were nesting on the lights and we entertained ourselves by watch the bats come in and find a place to eat. After chatting and photo taking it was time for shower and bed xoRead more