After waking up this morning with a dicky tummy I was sitting on the end of the bed wandering if I was going to be able to leave the hut at all today when something appeared next to me, wriggling up the wall. Not having my glasses on at the time (and electricity only being available for lights from 6pm) my first thought was a small snake ..... Further investigations revealed a giant centipede, not really much better than a snake. The horrible creature has withstood a morning's siege of walking pole, fork, lighter and mosquito coils and is now firmly lodged in a crack a few inches from my pillow.

Later on in the morning Iain pointed out a monkey on the roof opposite and we got excited and took some pictures....... next things we knew there were twenty of them. The huts opposite us are slightly cheaper as their bamboo walls don't reach the roof. The monkeys swept down the hill ransacking one hut after another, crashing noises from the insides and chocolate biscuits and peanut butter falling from the trees. They decided they wanted our bin and we held the veranda as long as we could with walking pole (multipurpose) and chair before barricading ourselves inside as they tried the windows and doors..... No doubt more experienced people will find this ridiculous however they are very intimidating and don't back down to anything!

Later on in the day (tummy recovered) whilst clinging to a stalactite twenty metres above the ground I looked up to see three of them between me and the top of the route......