It was difficult getting up early this morning to pack up what was left of our clothes and have breakfast up on the terrace before our jungle trek at 8.30am.
We dropped our bags off next door ready to check in later and we were off down the river to start our walk.
At breakfast we spotted a few monkeys playing in the trees on the opposite side of the river. Ben, out your guide said that they are probably thomas langua monkeys.

We walked over a rickety old bridge and through some rubber tree plantation fields which were cool because the sap is white and they shave a strip of the bark every day from the tree and it produces sap which is collected after a week and then put in the ground to form as a mould and sold at the makerts so it can be made into rubber. How cool!!

We got to the national park entrance, there was a notice board showing you facts and figures about the park. It has 7000 Orangutans in the park (this was calculated in 2012 so there may be more now) aswell as at least 60 tigers and loads of other different animals like honey bears, gibbons and all sorts of monkeys.

Within five minutes of entering the park we saw something special! An orangutan and her baby in the tree above us, and we finally found a black gibbon! Very rare to see one of these in the wild, let alone see it trying to play fight with an orangutan! We were there for ages just admiring and watching them swing around. The orangutan swans on a tree and it broke; the black gibbon got about 1 metre away from us which was pretty damn cool! We got some incredible footage! We were so excited to see more!
...and we did see more, within another five minutes we had spotted another two Orangutans making a nest and hanging around on the trees above us. We were so close to them, and they were just hanging in their natural habitat! It was great.

Next treat was a snake, it was coiled up on the tree when our guide found it. We weren't allowed to get too close because turns out it's part of the cobra family and is poisonous! No. thank. You.

If that wasn't enough, we got to see about 12 Thomas langua monkeys. We got even closer to these. They weren't aggressive to people and didn't want to take your belongings or go through your bag. They were so pretty to look at with their white faces and stomachs and the rest of them being a silver grey. The babies were even cuter! Our guide told us that these monkeys can only be found in North Sumatra!

We had seen pretty much everything and more that we had wanted to see on the trek today.
But that wasn't all we were going to see! We seen another four Orangutans playing in the trees.
Once we had climbed and walked heck of a way we sat down for some lunch which was delicious! Rice with an egg on top and some salad. Scott struggled with the salad and egg so I had his and he had some of my rice!
For afters we had pineapple, bananas, black passionfruit and tangerines. Then a wild peacock decided to show his face and came around by where we were eating so we were naughty and gave him the hard part of the pineapple, he didn't open his feathers though... Obviously didn't think I was good looking enough! (They only open them to impress the ladies)
Then... We got a visit from a short tail marquet monkey. Not your average mean city like ones that pinch everything from you and are thin and scrawny. Oh no! He was beautiful! You could tell his maintenance regime in the mornings takes up some time! He was from the baboon family, so imagine a baboon but with thick brown and grey hair and without the pink arse. He was really nervous and wouldn't come to bear to us which I liked that about him! We were naughty and fed him a banana in little chunks so that we could get a few photos of him!
We couldn't believe our luck, all of these animals we were seeing! It was awesome! The best jungle trek we had ever been on since we have been away!
Out guide and his friend that brought the food spotted a huge centipede with bright red legs. It was poisonous though so we weren't allowed to touch it. Until... They took the knife I was using to cut the black passionfruit with and chopped it's poisonous teeth off (they grow back so there's no harm to nature done here!) Scott was first to hold it, I wasn't going near the thing!

After lunch we trekked down the massive hill, it was slippery and we basically had to climb and hold on to all the vines whilst going down.
Even that made us hot and sweaty and we were in the shade going downhill! So imagine what we were like going up hill... Yeah it was dripping off if us!
We got to the river and were greeted by another two Orangutans hanging down in our path. The two people before said that she was a little aggressive and if you don't give her something for food she wouldn't let you pass. I personally think she had a good thing going on here! Getting food from people instead of having to go searching for it. They were literally about 2 metres above our heads waiting for food or our bags!
Our guide gave her some pineapple peelings and we were allowed to pass peacefully. It was so funny to watch!

Once we reached the river we got to have a dip, it was so refreshing! It was so cold and made you felt clean! The guys prepared our tubes, they tied them altogether and put our bag in a waterproof bag and tied it all up. The rapids weren't massive but big enough and deep enough for tubes and to have a fun ride down! Our guide fell out of the tube which was funny! We got soaked! We got dropped off by our hotel, we switched hotels today so we checked in. Our room is nice, it doesn't have concrete walls like the other one did which means more I welcomed visitors can get through the cracks!

I went to collect our much needed clean washing and had a shower. Scott had a nap on the bed, whilst I was sat outside on the porch and had some very unwelcome visitors... Long tailed marquets! I froze not to make any sudden moment because they were really close to me, I shouted to Scott to shut the door of the room and the windows, he eventually let me in and by now there were about 20 of them that had come down from the jungle behind us, looking in the bins and the one was climbing up onto our window!
Thankfully the lady that was sweeping up came around and shoo'd them away! I still wasn't going outside for a while, just incase! I hate those things!

We went for some grub at Sam's Bungalow again tonight because it was delicious there! We both ordered the same thing!