We woke up to torrential rain. I hadn't slept very well and had spent the hour before we got up, mentally preparing for 3 days of getting rained on. I wasn’t looking forward to trekking in the jungle as it was, doing it wet even less so. If we were staying in overnight lodgings with hot water and electricity, I’d have been okay. Getting rained on all day, to arrive in a tree house with no way of getting dry or warm, was not my idea of a good time....

We sat at the coffee shop in front of our guest house at 10am; we were being picked up between 10am and 10.30am and decided to people watch while we wait. The mini bus was late and Edd asked reception to call to find out where they were. 10.45am they arrived and we clambered into the mini bus and prepared for the 3-hour journey to the border.We stopped just over an hour later to have lunch in an overpriced restaurant that served 3 things: Pad Thai, chicken and ri...