That's A Whole New Smell Of Sweat...

Day 17. What a number, what a day! We slowly arose from our Nancy-house induced sleep and before we knew it we were out of the door! The trekking began early, and so did the tiredness. We were heading towards Long Dano (the stilt village in the jungle!) where we would do some project work for the locals there.
Heave! Puff! It started out by going through lots of leg-swallowing marshes, culminating in balancing acts on logs... and failing to balance, and lots more leg-swallowing. And laughing at certain people when someone, cough, refused to help them up! Well, I was well-and-truly buried and well-and-truly stukk too!
There's not much you can say about the hiking really. Knackering yes. As much as you try and look up at the amazing scenery, you have to look at the floor all the time to make sure that you're not tripping over anything, or slipping up, or about to be bitten by anything!
HA! Then came a highlight of the trip so far. We were walking along a particularly slippery and steep part of the "path". There was a sheer drop to the right. We were in a long line, surely one of us had to fall down?! Yup, step up Kyle... fall down Kyle! So he summersaulted down the mini-cliff (about 7 metres)... and survived with no major injuries. His backpack fruit was even still intact! Despite how spectactular it looked, Kyle didn't even loose a limb!
Today was a momentous day for one specific reason! I lost my leech virginity! However, it DID take me 15 days of being in Borneo! If you find one, the trick is to grab your DEET (insect repellant) and coat the thing in it, until it quickly rolls off, leaving you bleeding. They're really cool little things, fascinating to poke and prod. And they don't hurt at all when they bite, nor do they spread any diseases. You only discover them when you're itching your leg for example, and you feel a bump! Or you may not realise you've been bitten until you see the blood down your leg, with the leech long gone!
And so we were soon (ha! like hell!) at camp (nothing there but trees, we had to set it up ourselves). We chopped a few trees down just for fun, cleared some shrubs and set up hammox, slowly but surely. Bugs kept attacking me as I put my hammock up, but the fear of the mozzies (and the use of DEET) rapidly subsided. Evening entertainment was ourselves and brilliant. Sleep that night was strangely uncomfortable for once... maybe i was simply too moist?!

Today's Leech Count: 1 (Total: 1)