After a very interrupted and uncomfortable sleep we were woken up at 6am to go out into the terrential rain for our morning river safari. Out of the 20odd people in our group, only 10 decided they wanted to go on it, including us!

Looking forward to seeing all the wildlife first thing in the morning when they are most active, because of all the rain all we saw a monkey and a bird. A little bit disappointing.

Arrived back in camp for our breakfast and joined the rest of the group before our next little adventure, a pleasant and refreshing walk deep into the jungle. Although wading through knee high mud and water would be the best phrase.

We saw a lot of spiders, frogs, poisonous caterpillars, but because of all the rain, most of the animals were in hiding. Although we did eat some leaves, which was different. The guide told us they helped throat problems and then that are some almost identical leaves also in the jungle that are poisonous but assured us the ones we had just eaten werent!

Finally the rain stopped and we had the afternoon to ourselves doing nothing but chilling out and playing cards. It was mid afternoon when someone came running into camp shouting "'ORANGUTAN!" Obviously everyone stampeded to the spot where we found a huge male high up in the trees staring down at us all before getting bored and started to eat all the fruit! It was amazing to see one just hanging around right by our camp!

At 6pm we went for our sunset river cruise and this was much better than in the morning, as we came slowly cruised by proboscis monkeys, macaques, crocodiles, eagles, orangutans and then we heard a massive trumpet noise coming from inside the jungle - the unmistakable sound of an elephant! Nobody was expecting it, least of all the guide who had never seen one before in the wild. He excitedly asked if we all wanted to go and find it - silly question really!

He pulled up the boat up to the side and we all charged up the banking. Claire being one of the first off the boat was also one of the first to realise that the banking wasn't firm, it was soft thigh high mud. It was after a few steps before she got completely stuck. The other people (including Dave) learnt from this mistake and made their way up another part of the banking, leaving Claire and another lad who had also made the wrong choice completely buried. With a little pulling from Dave and some very dirty scrambling she managed to get up the banking in bare feet, sacrificing both wellies!

There was about 12 of us now in the middle of the jungle following a guide who had no elephant experience whatsoever. Although you didnt need to know what it was when seeing the huge footprint on the floor. Nor do you need much experience to know a wild charging elephant shouldnt be taken lightly! So when we heard the trumpet sound, the trees breaking round us and the guide suddenly shouting "RUN, RUN!!" We didnt need telling twice as we legged it, faster than we have probably ever run before - we then heard more shouting as the guide was telling us it was now OK so we all stopped to get a breather...30 seconds later, the trumpet sound, trees falling down and then "RUN, RUN!!!". So off we went again Claire still in completely bare feet, flying over fallen down trees and running on rocks and twigs! Fortunately we all made it and apart from lost wellies, ripped pants and caked in mud we were all happy to be back on the boat!

We got back to the camp wishing we could have a shower, but as there is no running water at all, only a huge bucket filled with river and rain water we had to do our best!

We had our evening meal, with everyone still excited about our earlier experience, but we skipped the night walk as were on our very last set of clothes and felt like we'd had enough excitement and seen enough insects (especially the mozzies, which had ravaged Claire when going to the bathroom - well if you could call a hole in the floor with no flush a bathroom).

We had a much quieter night with a few people from the group before going to bed after waiting up to see the backside of a wild cat after lights out at 12.