Ever experienced a gibbon (species of monkey)? Me neither, didn't see a single one the whole time. How you ask could something that's named after an animal you are supposed to see still be absolutely amazing even if you don't. The answer is quite simple really: treehouses and ziplines. Now I've done ziplining before and I've seen treehouses before too, but nothing like this. There are six treehouses connected by many more ziplines, some almost a kilometer long. Something like this in a developed country would require constant supervision from experienced and mature guides. Hooray for Lao! Our guide was 19 and we only saw him on the hikes and to bring us food, once we arrived at our treehouse we were able to uses the ziplines as much as we wanted by ourselves. A few of us even went ziplining at night (fun, dangerous, and against the rules) when our treehouses' water supply suddenly went dry. Overall definitely one of the highlights of my trip so far. The only drawback was that one of the treehouses had hundreds of bees in it. I don't like bees. If they didn't make honey and sustain our ecosystem through pollination, I would advocate that they be exterminated. Luckily though, the best cure for a bee sting is to zipline half a kilometer over a jungle river valley. Four people on my trip, myself included, can testify to that.
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