Jungle Trekking

Carrying day packs and water we trudged through some pretty dense jungle, negotiating streams via logs.

Onward and upward looking forward to arriving at  our first village.

While we were labouring under the weight of our day packs the rest of our belongings were being transported in bamboo baskets  attached to bands of cloth around our porters heads.

At the start of the trek we were one porter short and this is his replacement.  He was delighted to have his first grown up portering job.   The people of the hill tribes are small and  children usually look much younger than they are, I certainly hope so in this case