Canyoning!

Had the most amazing day today! Me and Holly booked this jungle adventure thing, so this morning we met this crazy french guy who runs it who kitted us out with a harness and helmet etc to go canyoning. We set off in an open jeep for an hour long journey into the jungle, the ride itself was amazing - driving in India is always fun especially in a jeep through the jungle! On the way we saw these massive spiders with giant cobwebs which were absolutely disgusting but fascinating, but scared me a little bit in case I walked into one of their webs - I'm scared of spiders normally, never mind when our guide told us these ones were poisonous!  When we got there we set off on this trail (which wasn't much of a trail at all) through the trees and towards the waterfall. It was about a 40 minute trek to the water and was actually really hard work because it was mostly uphill. On the way our crazy french guide saw a snake... and decided to chase it! It was a little green vine snake, which was actually quite cute but apparently poisonous too, but that didn't stop him grabbing it and holding it for us to see! He told us that yesterday they had seen a king cobra on their trek, which is really rare to see and their poison can kill you in 10 minutes! Although that sounds terrifying I'm kind of gutted we didn't get to see one today.When we got to the water we put on our harnesses and abseiled down a waterfall and did a couple of 3m jumps into the pools and slid down the rocks and stuff, it was so much fun! We did a couple of 5m jumps too, and Holly did a 6m jump but I chickened out! Really not keen on jumping off things but what we did was really fun. One of our abseils was about 16m down this waterfall which was soo scary because you had to slide down the first part then try to turn around on the slippery rock and abseil the last bit, but the rock was so slippy it was really hard! Then at the end, the rope was about 1m short so you had to push off with your feet into the pool below, it was so fun! At the end we scrambled onto some rocks on top of the next waterfall which was 55m high, and you could see the one below it too which was 30m high, and in the distance you could see the hills and the forest it was amaaazing, such a good day!