he was harmless!! After our swim Ajax collected a load of different coloured pebbles, and showed us how the native people mix them with water and use them to paint their faces! I had a go on my hand, but I don’t think my art skills are quite up to theirs!! We had to leave the kitty back at his camp, and it almost brought a tear to the eye when we had to leave him on the opposite bank of the river, meowing in discontent at being left behind!!! On the way back we saw a huge wild boar grunting and crashing it’s way through the forest - quite a scary sight! Ajax had said they were really dangerous, and we could now see why!!!

The last activity was called the ear cave, and this one we had no idea about - probably a good job because I think if we had known we wouldn’t have done it!! We had to crawl inside this little tiny cave almost on our hands and knees through shallow murky water and bat

poo! Hel even decided that she didn’t like it and was going back to meet us at the entrance. No such luck lady! This was a one way trip, the exit was elsewhere - there was no going back!! We crawled through a little gap into a bigger chamber, and came face to face with hundreds of little bats!! Quite cute little things, but nevertheless quite unnerving being so close to them - at one point they couldn’t have been more than six inches from our face‘s!! Ajax then asked if we wanted to see one of the resident snakes!! We were very unsure about the answer to that question, but figured in for a penny, in for a pound!! Thankfully the snake was inside the cave wall, and only a bit of it was visible through a hole. It was very beautiful though, pure white, and must have been quite big judging from the thickness of it. Apparently these snakes live in the holes in the rock, and never see daylight, hence being pure white. The only thing they ever do is every week or two when they get hungry, they venture into