PART 4 I was last to wake once again, but managed to wake up in the hammock and not on the crawling ground which was a good result. The sleep was more fitful than the previous night, and a few times I had to whip out the torch and seek the sources of the scurrying, […]
PART 3: As usual I woke up last, awakened by the complaints from Rich the champion snorer that he didn’t get a wink of sleep all night. He then coughed up and spat a few big wads of phlegm and downed the last of the Hong Thong: Begin day 2. The guides were of course […]
Part 2: Monday Sept. 29th, the morning of the trek we got up around 7.30 for one last proper shower – the Thai method with stalls of ice cold water you pour over yourself with little plastic pots. I am glad I was with it enough to savour every cleansing moment of this as it […]
What made this 3 day, 11 mile trek through Khao Sok national park rain forest a once in a lifetime experience? The voice like a stuck record playing in my head repeating ‘Never again’ the entire time? The constant stabby, scratchy, spiky, sucky, bitey, poisonous, parasitic creatures and plants intent on causing harm every step […]