The routine was wake up call, with tea, at 5am, breakfast at 0530 and off at 6.00am. Today we were off to do a forest walk in secondary rainforest about a 45 minute drive away. The Austrian couple had opted to do the walk in the bai that they had missed last night - relations remained strained! As we were leaving with the American couple - Lee and Danielle who were both in their 70s - one of the cooks ran to say that there was an elephant in the staff quarters -...

At breakfast we looked to see if anymore people were likely travel companions - there was one couple popping malaria pills but we decided unlikely as the lady had pink suede shoes and normal clothes on - the others looked like single business people. At 0830 we checked out ready for our departure at 0845. All seven who came from South Africa were ready; we were told that we were waiting another couple - we all got on the bus - a man and the couple with the pink...

Repacking success our 20kgs of luggage each reduced to 20kgs between us so we are well within the light aircraft limit which includes hand luggage, and with camera and binoculars mine weighs in at a hefty 7kgs! Today we were awake well before our 5am alarm call and just about to have a second cup of tea when the call came - needless to say we were packed, checked out of the hotel, checked in for the flight and through all the formalities before 6.15; at which ti...