The virtues of bathing in the river

- Plentiful water, not like a miserable shower.
- And no guilt for wasting water.
- No disgusting feeling of stagnation after you bathe for one hour, the water keeps renewing.
- Fancy currents massaging you (season permitting – there are extremes of no current and deadly flash floods).
- No need to clean up afterwards.
- Great scenery, sounds, and the added wildlife.

I will omit the few drawbacks, to avoid discouraging further my prospective visitors, eheh.

Home siamangs

When I said that one group of siamangs lives above our camp (to testify the eco-friendliness of the establishment), I meant it: this picture was taken from my “porch”. It would be lovely to sit there, sipping your tea, your legs resting on the rail, and leisurely collecting data on the PDA on your lap..
The reality is that this group roams a nasty area (behind the camp), of steep gorges, slippery mud and deceitful thorny bastard plants, so usually when you pass by the camp is to frantically ask if anybody has seen bloody Micheal (the spirited young male who runs around singing away from the group)...

Dive 2: Combre

Combre: "Let me show you, this is how you are supposed to do it"

Dive 1: Chelsea

Chelsea: "I should go down from this branch, but I am not sure. I really should.. and yet... OK, I go.. hmmm, I could still climb up.. come on, let go of the branch!"

I go, I don't, ready, steady, go!

Amang and Amin drinking

Travelling restaurant

Among the many strange sounds you hear when you are in town (because of course, you have now mastered all of the different calls of the forest..), there are those of the “traveling restaurants”. These are small carts, food stalls on wheels, that are carried around, equipped with everything to prepare all sort of food, from soup with meat balls to fried rice, to a dessert made of many different sweet and colorful things. What I didn’t know is that you can recognize what each one sells from the characteristic noise it makes to attract the attention: a clink-clink is soup, tlok-tlok is the rice, sdleng-sdleng is satay, and so on..