“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight." - C. JoyBell C.

After an hour or so on the van (and some very narrow and precarious roads) we arrived at the Flight of the Gibbon. According to their website they are “the leaders in zipline eco-adventure canopy tours in southeast Asia”. And I would justify this. It was absolutely incredible. Over 5 kilometers of ziplines as well as suspended bridges and abseil descents which totaled more than three hours of soaring and suspension many stories above the forest ground. And we saw gibbons!

A pre-flight photo of Kate and I in our souvineer bandanas they provide.

Gibbon baby! 

It's a bird, it's a plane, oh wait it's Winona on a zipline! 

Just climbing a net in a tropical forest. No big deal. 

One of the abseil descents. I think these were the scariest part. 

Kate and I on a tree top hangout area. 

Kate and I soaring on a tandem zipline. 

A really pretty tree. And if you look closely you can see one of the zipline platforms. 

After our adventure of soaring through the forest Fight of the Gibbon provided a delicious Thai lunch before taking us to a waterfall near their site. They told us we had 20 minutes, but our tour group decided to hike up to the top of the falls, so we made it back in just under an hour.

Oh, and a quick anecdote about our tour group. There were six of us total: two couples and then Kate and I. Ironically, we were all midwestern Americans. Kate is from Wisconson, one of the couples was from Chicago, and another came from the Twin Cities (Minnesota, where I myself dwelled for a while). It was kind of fun that we could bond over similar roots while all traveling around Thailand.

Walking around the waterfall. 

The bottom part of the falls.

Kate and I at the top of the falls. 

The falls were gorgeous and the entire trip was easily one of the best highlights of my time here in Thailand. On the trip back into Chiang Mai Kate and I mused over how lucky we were that it was each other here at Santisuk right now. Had another missionary been here instead of Kate and I, we might not have gotten the oppertunity to do such adventurous things. Such as spontanously trecking out to Chiang Mai by ourselves. Or hiking around tropical mountains near the border of Myanmar. We were just so grateful for everything to work out and end up as such an exciting trip.