I took this photo of the interesting cumulonimbus formation.

We stayed in a really nice hotel room in Jerantut before we entered the jungle. They had hot and cold shower, air conditioning, and even two movie channels. These are the things that we get excited about now that we have been away for more than 5 weeks.

I was really disappointed that I would miss the ending of the original 'Beauty and the Beast' to catch out bus to the river boat that would take us into the world's oldest rainforest.

The boat trip took 3 hours and we saw water buffalo and monkets on the river banks.

We stayed in a hut overlooking the river on the outside of the village.

All of the restaurants in the village were floating restaurants but they all served the same food and it was a bit boring. Katie got excited one night when she saw a freezer covered in cornetto stickers. She said that she would have an ice cream for desert. It turned out that their freezer was completely empty. She was determind to have an ice cream though, so we went to the shop next door and they also had a freezer covered in cornetto stickers. I was a few metres in front of Katie so I heard her say "They've got ice cream!" at the same time that I saw that the freezer was empty. They must all be part of a cruel joke on the foreigners.

There were 2 Hungarian men next door to us. The walls were so thin we could hear every sound they made in their room and in their toilet. One morning we were woken up at half seven because one of them had diarrhoea.

The jungle was really hot and humid and there was a heavy rainstorm everyday.

We stayed there for 4 nights and we did one activity each day.

All the activities centred around looking at wildlife apart from the rapid shooting which involved sitting on a boat and sailing up the rapids in the river. The rapids didn't really make us wet, so our guide at the front of the boat used a big paddle to splash us with water and our guide at the back of the boat occasionally filled up a bucket of water and poured it over our heads.

We went on a jungle trek which included going on a canopy walk. This involves walking over bridges along the tops of the trees on the longest canopy walk in the world and is up to 45 metres above the ground. You are meant to see monkeys and birds in the trees but we didn't. Because it was chinese new year, there were hundreds of chinese people in front of us and they were all really noisy so I think they scared the monkeys and birds away.

We went on a night jungle safari which didn't go through the jungle at all but went though a rubber plantation. We didn't see much wildlife: only 2 birds, an owl, 2 baby snakes, and a leopard cat.

We said to someone later who had been on another night safari that we didn't see much and they said "we didn't see much either: only 4 birds, 2 spiders, some monkeys, a black cat, a leopard cat, another type of cat, 3 snakes..."

We went on a night jungle walk and we were the only ones who did it. Our guide was funny, he liked messing with our heads. He kept trying to stick my fingers onto spiders or into scorpian holes. Sometimes he turned the torch off and pretended there was a spider on us. We only saw a few spiders and crickets and poisonous caterpillers on this walk.

We actually saw more wildlife in our hut than on any of these activities. We saw monkeys climbing the trees outside our hut, we had a large spider in our room looking after it's web, I found a spider as big as my hand on my flip flop one morning (I had to step over it to get the camera and when I slammed the door to stop it from following me into the hut, it ran away), we saw loads of weird grasshoppers and stick insects and crickets all around our hut.

I found some rodent poo on my pillow. This was pretty disturbing, it meant that either a mouse or a rat had probably been running around on my bed, sleeping bag, and pillow and then chose to sit on my pillow and defacate while we were out.

When we got back to Jerantut we immediately booked into the room with the movie channels and the nice beds and I got my sleeping bag and pillow case washed at the laundry.

Aidan.