davienne

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

If you are thinking of trekking through a jungle in, say, a place like Sarawak, you might want to refer to this before attempting anything.

Especially if you come from the city.

1. Prepare everything and bring nothing
Yes.

Buy all the Tiger Balms/lotions/repellents you need. Pack all the wet tissues, plasters, coffins of pills, spare (but uncharged) batteries into a tiny pink backpack.

And, decide at the very last moment that it would probably wear you down, so you're not bringing any of it.

2. Bring your lousiest pair of shoes
You'll need these to sink your feet into the mud!

But halfway through the trekking, you'll also realise your residual love for your lousiest pair of shoes - because you can't seem to bring yourself to sink 'em ALL THE WAY into the mud.

They'll help, nevertheless.

3. Don't try to train up too much for the trek
Because while you may be able to conquer the tree roots and dried leaves, you might just lose out to...

... A colourful bug.

4. When you see bees buzzing about, don't just swipe them away
Swipe them away so vigorously so that your trekking partner gets stung too!

5. Don't wear shorts
You never know when you will get bitten in the butt by leeches.

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COMMENTS:

was it that tough trekking through jungles... maybe been thru it and i had absolutely no problem with leeches after they pass by me so many time. they dun even say thank u after feeding on me. =(

# posted by

yinkoon : Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:09:00 AM SGT

xxx

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