Rickety old bridge

As cutely artistic it may seem, it's actually one of the only real ways to get across the river... yep- this aint just a looking bridge... its probably one of the scarriest walking bridges I can ever regret upon. I wouldn't mind it, except that around here, something you learn very quickly- they don't fix it if it aint broken! You could be that lucky time! Especially since we arrived near midnight the first night in, no light, with our heavy packs having NO freaking clue where we were or where we were going... on its sister rickety bridge nearby. I seriously contemplated what kinds of things I would break if I fell... because it wasn't quite far enough to kill you on impact nice and easily... it would be slow painful haul out.

Buket Lewang- village by sunrise!

These were some of the images I hoped on capturing while the Monkey desperately tried to stop me!

Bad Monkey!

We got up at the crack of dawn much to our disinterest but on our last day to take beautiful picturs of a our beautiful village we could never forget. Well! So did this monkey (and many others).. but not like this monkey. THis monkey decided to throw coconuts at me while I was trying to capture the essence of sunrise! Can you see all the flying debris from the mess of a tree he just tore apart above me!?

Buket Lewang- still in Sumatra

I don't know if you can tell amongst the greenery, but down there at the very bottom is an orange spec of our hotel room. In the middle of nowhere.. I mean... in the middle of everywhere! It is soo green and beautiful here. This was on a killer hike the second day after the first killer hike had me soar from the first day. But I had to go because we had special accompaniment by one of the villages oldest locals who knew all the medicinal purposes of the land... quite a treat. Just another long exhausting one as well.

back in the game!

Okayyyy... after hours of deleting and combining... I THink I barely have the energy to start reposting! I can't wait to catch up to the present tense... as there seem to be so many stories flying by everyday that will be long forgotten by the time I get there! Anywayssss.... this picture shows the all the energy I could muster up in excitement for what was to come and what had already come!!! Bascially we took an extremely long exhausting, but out of this world trekking adventure to see the Orangutans... we were all a bit nausseated and passing out from the heat and exhaustion... BUT thankfully some brilliant company thought up the idea of tubing the trek back. So basically you hike your ass off, and then you get to relax and chill ou in the water watching the amazing scenery go by. Well, not quite relax.. as there were some big and somewhat scarry rapids ahead of us... but it was all in good fun! My pose should show just HOW excited I was given how incredibly tired I was!!!!!

EEX

Somehow this got posted without any text-- but basically it said that blogger stopped allowing me to post pix... possibly I ran out of space. So for now I have deleted many of the pix after printing it all out-- but not the text-- since text doesn't take up much space. I will continue to post now (still a TON of catchup) but also continue to take down my older posts to do so. I will also downsize as much as possible. I have two-years worth so I gatta make it last! =)

Sumatran Falls

Another gorgeous waterfall on our jungle journey in Sumatra!