Friday, October 17, 2008

How many gibbons does it take to make an experience?

Colin mentioned we were off on the "Gibbon Experience" and I suppose it'd be prudent to give a better explanation of what experiencing "the gibbon" means...

While this photograph could explain it all,

a more accurate description of the Gibbon Experience is 2 days of treehouse living in the Bokeo Jungle of Northern Laos, while ziplining, hiking and waterfall swimming. Oh, and you also eat the same gross poo cutlet (with sticky rice!) for every meal.

The food may have tasted like soggy armpits, but everything else was spectacular (with the possible exception of getting molested by leeches on day 2 and not seeing any gibbons).

Here are a few video clips of the ziplining.. It was pretty awesome. The first one is of Colin breaking the sound barrier, and the other two are from my not-so-sturdy hand-cam. Volume recommended.

More to come on Colin being Tarzan and Me Jane, but in the meantime please see some photographic back up of previous posts.

Individually Pocketed Cement Blocks- Wake up feeling like you slept on air-brushed steel plates!

An exceedingly pleasant open air evening in Chiang Rai. Apparatus (stage left) assisted in pleasantness.

2 comments:

partaker said...

Those videos are the jam.

ashleyakircher said...

Ziplining looks like so much fun! But, more importantly (and gibbons aside), are Colin's white shorts THE white basketball shorts I remember hearing so much about? And here I thought white men couldn't jump...