We have had an amazing 3 days on the Gibbon Experience where we travelled through the jungle on zip lines to our own honeymoon treehouse 30 metres above the ground. From there we had a rare sighting of a family of gibbons swinging through the trees with great agility. Our guides brought 3 meals a day to our treehouse and we explored the jungle both on foot and on zip wires across ravines. The longest zip was 450 metres long and we travelled at speed, too far off the ground to look!

The family of black crested gibbons we saw are an endangered species of which there are less than 2000 in the World. They are not monkeys but apes, with 90% of the same DNA as humans. They have the longest arm length relative to body size of any primate with arms twice the length of their bodies and one and a half times the length of their legs.

Their family early morning call was magical and I will try to upload it to this blog later.

You may like to look at www.gibbonexperience.org to share the adventure we have just had. Good to be back in a hotel for a hot shower and laundry service!

Tomorrow we leave Houay Xai for a day cruising down the Mekong river to Pakbeng, which by comparison with the last 3 days will be tame!