Day one of the Gibbon Experience: We met our trekking group - 6 Thai women who work for the government. They were realy nice, but unfortunately it wasn't the same as doing the trek with travellers - who we generally had much more in common with. We started off with a 3 hour trek and took several zip wires around the jungle - i'll upload videos soon. The zip wires were definately the highlight of the trip. Some were well over 150 metres in the air and were extre...

We woke up early this morning to cross the Mekong into Laos and to clear immigration. Unfortunately, it was absolutely pissing it down. We checked in with the office who was organising our trekking the next day. We were told that since we had 14 kilometres off-road before we got to the village where our trek started that we may have a 7 hour trek in the rain if the 4x4 couldn't make it. We hid in our guest house room until night. The place was completely dead -...