though it was a very tough climb, as it was already pretty hot, and the humidity made it a very perspiration heavy experience - except for Ajax, who maintained that he didn’t drink water, so didn’t sweat!! The view from the top was magnificent though, and made it all worth it. You could see for miles and miles, and all the way to the horizon in all directions was just rainforest! Ajax said that you could walk for a month before you came to the edge! You really did get a real feeling for just how vast this place was!!! We heard some weird kind of noise down in the valley below us, which we assumed was a strange bird of some kind! We were amazed to discover though that it was actually Gibbons calling to each other! It was the most amazing moment - such an ethereal sound echoing through the forest below. We sat there mesmerised for what seemed like an age, until it was time to head back down!

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We got about an hour’s break before the afternoon’s activities - just about enough time for a welcoming cold shower - the showers were fed from a local waterfall - and were freezing, and then a quick lunch. The pace throughout the whole four days was hectic - this was one of the good things about doing it as a tour with a guide - not only did we get the benefit of the guide’s knowledge, but we did far more than we would have done ourselves!!

Then we were off back downstream to the canopy walkway - the bit that Hel had been dreading!! It is the longest and highest of it’s type in the world, it said in the leaflets that it reached 32 meters high - we later found out that this was out of date, and it now reached 48 meters and was over half a kilometre long!! After a bit of a wobbly start though, Hel quickly got used to the swaying and the height, and actually started enjoying it! You