Posts Tagged Jungle

Tribal Marks

My Father asked me a question before I left England for this leg of my journey. It was a question I didn’t know the direct answer too, but I said there’s always a possibility, I mean, I can never say I won’t do it again I just need the right idea or to be in the right place. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jungle Boogie

WARNING: Viewer Discretion is Advised

We got out of bed to a breakfast of pancakes, which would soon become a very common theme and as hard as it is to say it: pancakes have become a bit of a hated food; you really can have too much of a good thing.

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Way Down Deep…

Our first morning in the jungle started with a wild symphony of calls and song. The pigs had returned from their feasting at some point the evening before and settled beneath the house in their muddy pits. They began the day with a good old lung cleaning squeal and grunt, joined in by a chorus of roosters cock-a-doodle-dooing, Read the rest of this entry »

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Highways and Byways

Our first day on the jungle trip was far from the wilds of the tropical wilderness, we had to reach the island of Siberut off the western coast of Sumatra and the only way there was via an over night ferry from Padang.

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Rumble in the Jungle

We left Jelantut by bus to a jetty on the Tahan River where we boarded this thin, and low in the water vessel that carried us up the river on a three hour journey to the Taman Negara National Park, Read the rest of this entry »

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