Just as you thought things couldn't get any better, they have! We spent the equivalent of driving from London to Glasgow yesterday but we're still upbeat for our early morning visit to the park and the chimps.

All set and prepared for wading through leech filled swamps in my size 3 gold pumps, i waited for the ranger. We had been told 7am so were all patiently waiting, to be told he was still in bed. An hour and a half later we were off. 300m down the road we stopped outside a tin shack in the middle of the village and told we had to see the museum beforehand. So we got out. There were some monkeys hanging around and a picture or two of some chimpanzees. Now last time I had an encounter with a troop of chimpanzees, I was in Uganda trekking with a soldier with welly boots on. We rounded a corner to see this massive male in the path running towards us. I screamed, threw my walking stick to the side and ran off. The chimp screamed and bolted in the opposite direction. I'm not really keen on them, they are vicious evil b*****s.

Anyway, it was quite late in the morning so I was hoping they had gone off to bed or whatever they do. As it was I needn't have been worried - our trek around the virgin rainforest was a 20 minute stroll in a bamboo plantation at the back of the shack. But they had kindly planted some chimp nests in the trees for us.

Needless to say, after getting no sleep in a concrete bed and being fed such a load of b******s we were a bit quarrelsome. And back we got in the car for another 8 hour drive.

The only highlights of the day are that Kaye ordered chicken and fries and got chicken and flies. We also had a public minibus in front of us chucking all its contents off the roof - blue bucket, steel bowl, someone's lunchbox, more buckets all bouncing off to the nearest village. Cote D'Ivoire is now renamed **** D'Ivoire and I have posted some great photo's for you to get a feel of the country.