I had a rubbish night's sleep, I kept waking up nearly every hour. Probably because I knew we had to get up early! Scott had a good sleep though I think, his guts are still a little dodgy.
We packed up and showered ready for 8.30 to check out and get breakfast before the jungle trek.
We took all of our valuables with us and just left our big rucksacks in the luggage storage at the hotel.
We were meeting the tour guides at the backpacker pad at 9.30 so we thought we would have breakfast there so we would be ready in time. I ordered poached eggs on bread (so they didn't even have to toast it) and it took50 minutes for it to come out so this ment we were at least half an hour late for the trip, good job the rangers had sorted all of our stuff out for us!
We jumped in the back of a pick up truck with all the kit and drove down some incredibly dusty and sandy roads for about 15 minutes until we reached a little village in the middle of nowhere, they even speak a different language here. I didn't know that there were indigenous languages other than Khmer in Cambodia.
The village had pigs everywhere, our tour guide who spoke really good English gave us our blanket and hammocks and two big bottles of water each that had to last us for the full two days. Somehow we had to fit all of this in or on our bags, it was a struggle but we did it, we had our hammocks hanging from the strap and the blanket through the straps in our bag so it sat flat on our backs.
Off we trotted with the ranger leading the way, who didn't speak English. He had flip flops on with a basket on his back and a small machete in his hand.
We were going through more forestry than jungle in the beginning, there were plenty of trips and falls amongst us! We had to use our balance a few times to cross little rivers on fallen logs, all of us successfully made the crossings.
We came across a little farmer's house, well hut in the middle of nowhere and stopped for a pit stop. The three children were sat playing and the wife was in the river washing clothes.
The guide told us that they sacrifice animals when a family member gets sick, but the priest or monk will decide which animal is appropriate to sacrifice for the person and their illness.
After a put stop for water and some cooked cashew nuts. Cashew nuts are so cheap over here, they have so many cashew nut farms, they grown on the tip of what looks like a miniature red pepper.
We got into some real jungle trekking for the next part. We stopped by a river, he pulled little white polis tiring containers out of a bag. Lunch was rice pork and omelette, I really couldn't stomach pork so thankfully I had the only vegetarian dish which was just omelette and rice.
Our ranger made us bamboo cups, the giant bamboo is hollow and at every ring in the wood it's not hollow so they'd chop a really big bit off and the carve it down to make a cup, it was so clever how they done it. These guys are better than bear grylls! He was doing it all smoking a fag and in flip flops.

After lunch it was another boiling hot hour and half walk up and down steep hills and through jungle to get to the waterfall which in fact isn't a waterfall it's more like a 2 metre deep splash pool. Either way it was cool and we just needed to put our bags down and jump in the water. There were two groups at the already made campsites so we had to compromise with a forestry on the other side of the splash pool, it was pretty cool though because we had to cut down small trees to get our hammocks proped up and we had make shift washing line out of bamboo for our clothes to dry, candle holders which were bamboo sticks (thought that would be good decoration for aunty Lynne's Asian garden!)

The pool was freezing and there were tiny fish in there trying to nibble on our feet again so I was treading water like a mad man! There was a vine in the trees which you could do Tarzan swings off and into the pool, mike had a go and broke it so we had to wait for them to climb up the tree and fix it. This guy done it bare foot in his boxers, he has definitely done that before!
There were little water scorpions and lobster things trying to nibble us which were minging! So I was being super brave this time around trying to not think about what I was standing on and what I couldn't see underneath the water!
The vine swing was good once it was fixed so we should have some good photos - hopefully! I slid off the huge tree that we were sat on in the water and as I did my bikini bottoms caught on a loose bit of wood and Ripped my pants but I was hanging bottoms up in the air for a few seconds until Scott managed to in hook me, obviously I couldn't keep still because I didn't have anything to stand on or balance on, how embarrassing! Everyone was watching me! All 13 people that are staying around the camp watched me! I had to get out and change my pants straight away! I guess we know who the camp clown is today; and another piece of clothing in the bin for me!

We planted some fishing nets up the stream with the ranger, he wanted us to get in the water with our trainers on. Sarah took one for the team!
When we got back the guide had prepared a snack, it was boiled beef with spring onions tomatoes and chilli, it was surprisingly good! Only bad thing about it was we had to drink a litre bottle of homemade 'jungle honey' it wasn't honey.. It was rice wine, well it tasted like a bad whiskey. It was awful! But he kept asking us to have a drink and it was Cambodian way. Felt bad then not drinking it and not accepting it. So if accept a little and put water in it but that still didn't make it good, so I accidentally knocked the cup over sometimes.
We sat on the 'make shift balcony' which was the long tree sticking out of the water. We chatted with the tour guides and played logical mind games which we found pretty difficult!

I played with the fire, it was so good to be sat around a fire again putting logs on it! Home sweet home! Scott was crouched down trying to learn what was being cooked, it was beef morning glory. Oh he's such a domestic goddess on times! We all sat around on the floor under the candlelight for food. Which was really good, again apart from the traditional sharing a bamboo cup with everyone to have a shot of the rice wine, because it tasted minging! I had a spoonful of rice at the ready after if drunk it!

The four of us played cards after dinner around the candlelight whilst the guide and ranger took mine and Scott's head torches to catch some frogs and see if the nets had caught any fish.
They came running back like school kids in their boxer shorts (they're 27 and 30 years of age) 'we got frogs!' Haha. Then he drops three, one on Sarah's face and two other leap around behind me so I flung up in the air like a mad woman. The two men disappeared again but this time for nearly an hour, so we were just left to fend for ourselves with the fire, I didn't think that was cool until they returned just as excited with about 15 frogs and fish stuffed into a 500ml water bottle, a crab and about 20 fish they had stunned in the water with their machete and wrapped around a piece of bamboo with a piece of vine!
They got cooking the delicious snack...
We went and star gazed, the sky was incredible! Scott got all excited about the stars, to be fair they looked pretty awesome! I could have stood there for ages watching them! It's crazy how many stars you don't see in the cities and even at home on the mountain, light pollution is the killer of a decent star gazing session!

We watched them kill the frogs, they boiled water in a pan and dropped them in one by one and they all just froze and died on the spot it was cruel but this is what they do in Cambodia I suppose. They were killing crabs, ripping a claw off and stabbing them with it and them putting in the fire to 'BBQ' i didn't try the crab, just a frogs leg; it was tasty and did taste a little like chicken. You could even eat the bones, I think they kind of disintegrated and it was just crunchy. BOFF.
Scott on the other hand is getting a right little date devil! He was loving the frogs and the crabs, I couldn't believe my eyes!

Being the dirty stop outs that we are, we headed for bed at 9.30pm! The hammock is really comfy - so far! And it had an attached mosquito net to it that gets propped up with string tied around the tree.

Goodnight from the jungle!