Ok, so here's another one my "random" posts about traveling: After we had finished teaching in southern Thailand, we traveled north to the amazing city of Chiang Mai where a huge new years celebration was taking place. It's pretty much a giant water fight that lasts for a week. There we heard about this thing called the Gibbon Experience in Laos where you get to live in a treehouse and zipline through the jungle for a weekend. It sounded too cool to pass up and we were heading that way anyway so we decided to give it a try. Turned out to be a great decision! When we got to the town in Laso and arrived at the headquarters we watched a five minute video that supposedly told us all we needed to know about zipline safety. Then, we drove about 3 hours into the jungle and hiked for an additional hour where we met up with our guide for the rest of the weekend. He took us a bit further in and we came upon our first "zip". He asked us if we saw the video, we said yes and then he said "ok, follow me" and zipped away! We looked at each other and laughed nervously - Only in Laos would they let you hook up to a zipline a couple hundred feet about the jungle floor with no protective gear, supervision or instruction. One by one we hesitantly hooked up and ziplined our way across the jungle to our treehouse which would be our home for the next few days. In the mornings, we listened to the calls of endangered gibbons and were lucky enough to see them a few times swinging in the trees. We were able to go out and zipline on our own and visit all of the different tree houses that they had set up (we had the best one!). It was an unforgettable experience. I've attached a video of our Gibbon Experience below.
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