Blood sucking creatures in the jungle

Back in Kuala Lumpur after some days in one of - or maybe even the oldest rainforest in the world. I am still traveling with my travel pals, Queen Elizabeth Tailor and Soniascheten and we managed to find a guy to join us out there in the jungle. We needed him to get rid of all kinds of creepy bugs for us but after all, maybe he wasn't the best person for that job.

We took a bus and afterwards a 3 hour boat trip to get to Tama Negara (the national park) and got there soaking wet - also our backpacks and everything in there. Yes indeed, it does rain in the rain forest!!!
The first day out there we did a small hike to a 'Canopy Walk' which was really cool. Walking through the treetops on very unstable bridges. We also go to see our first leech (bloedzuiger) on the trail. Well we weren't too sure about it being a leech but we would soon find out :(

The next day we took a boat a bit more upstream and walked for about 45 minutes to a hide in the jungle. On the way we had to flick off many leeches who were trying to make their way up our shoes, direction legs etc. Arriving at the hide we took off our shoes and socks and yes... there was a leech trying to get into my skin!! Awefull!!! I managed to flick it off and searched on toi find more. I thought that I saw a leaf hanging of my knee but after looking more closely we noticed that it was a leech who had done what it is supposed to do. It had sucked quite some blood and was all swollen. The conversation that followed was something like this:
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Heeeeeeeeeeeelp!!! Get it offf!!!! Someone sayd: Burn it. Nooooooooooo! Flick it offf! Flick Aaaaaaaaaaah Flick Aaaaaaaaaah Flick Aaaaah Flick Aaaaaaah! After flicking it off it was finally gone and I could relax for a while. It did bleed for a while though and now I still have a little hole in my knee.
Eventually Nina (Queen Elizabeth Taylor) discovered one on her side but the other had more luck.

We spent the night in the hide sleeping on wooden beds right in the jungle. At night it was very loud because of all the bugs and frogs around but except for some squirrels and rats steeling our biscuits we unfortunalelly didn't see any animals. In the morning we did wake up with the sound of gibbons though. It felt like waking up at home.

We managed to get back out of the jungle without any more leeches on our skin.

Now, back in KL it's good to not having to worry about leeches and other bugs.

Tomorrow we're off to the Cameron highlands for some more hiking and visiting tea plantations.