Vacation Mode Activate...form of Jungle Fun

So after a really long travel day, we arrived at Linnea Lodge in Tangkahan, Sumatra.  The ride from Medan was very bumpy and we were feeling a bit sore by the time we got here.  We are the only visitors at the lodge, which is cool and slightly uncomfortable.  Its nice to be alone in this beautiful place, but a 7:2 ratio of staff to us is a little much.

Today, we started off on a jungle hike.  We hiked around for about 3 hours looking for wildlife and birds, we didn't see much of either though.  At the end of the hike, we did see a thomas monkey (below) which was cool.  What we did see on the hike were leeches, lots and lots of leeches.  I probably had about 10 of them, for a gory pic check out facebook.  The leeches were not painful, just really bloody.

After removing the leeches, we walked over to a local hot spring, which we had to swim to get to.  It was rather tiny of a hot spring but the warm water felt nice on our achy bones from the travel and hiking.  There were a lot of locals at the hot springs, but no foreigners.  All of the woman were swimming in long pants and tops, so while ashley started out in a bikini she added a coverup for the rest of the day.  

After the hot springs break, we swam to a waterfall.  And then swam (lots of swimming in Tangkahan) to a junction of two rivers.  At the junction, we hopped on some inner tubes and floated down the river where we ate a late lunch at a waterfall.  After we hiked back, I took a nap.  It was quite the fun filled day. This is the advantae of doing a tour, b.c if it was just us we would have only done one thing but instead we packed it in.  After all that intensive traveling, it was great to have some intensive fun!