The year 2011 began, I was ambitious as ever. Mom's friend who went to Poring weeks before said I would never be able to climb all the way to the top where the canopy walk was. Yeah, you can say I'm as stubborn as a mule but the more people say I can't make it, the more I wana try.
It is 835 meters up from the first step up the path. Doesn't include the walk from the parking lot. Thst mskes it more than 1670 meters including the 4 canopy bridges we had to pass. But heck, i made it!!! Difficult as it is for an MS patient, I trained prior to the trip. Cycled, walked on a treadmill, I did my share of personal training to ensure that I can make it to the top. And so I did!
It was only on the way back, after lunch that I was attacked by that giant beetle. I've always suffered from severe pins and needles so I thought the prickling was normal. That was until the sucker sank all its claws in my right leg and I looked down to my horror. It was gigantic, the size of my palm! I freaked! No one dared to get the beetle off me looking at the size of it. In the end mom kicked it off. I asked if the beetle had poison, whether I can die. A lady said they should be harmless. My guide said if harmless then why is her leg bleeding. I had 8 holes on my leg bleeding! I found out later on that it was more than 8 holes in my leg. It left holes whereever it moved on me. I saw this beetle at a bug exhibition later but it was so peuny compared with the one that attacked me.
The next day I vomitted in a tribemen's home, twice! I was feeling sick since the day before but thought the psin would all just go away. I was wrong. So i was sick till I came back. Miserable experience...and the hotel I stayed in was far from everywhere except banks and a police station. If it wasn't because I was sick, any woman would have enjoyed going shopping.
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