The Gibbon Experience Huay Xai

So we decided to do the Gibbon Experience after hearing about it from an English couple on our cooking course. It was a bit of a budget buster but were told it was worth the money.

The GE is based in Bokeo National Park in Laos and was set up in an attempt to prevent logging and hunting of the gibbons by starting canopy tourism to protect …

Antes de comenzar el relato de esta experiencia, debo contarles que el narrador esta vez será la Ale (abeja, para los que sólo me reconocen con mi pseudónimo), se estarán preguntando por qué??? qué le pasó a nuestro relator estrella???, tranquilos... la razón es simple, vivimos juntos esta experiencia y yo…. logré sobrevivir!!!! (no es que el …

Today we awoke in the Sabaydee guesthouse on our rock hard mattresses and got ourselves some breakfast to steel us for the toughest trek I've ever experienced: a trip deep into the Bokeo Nature Reserve up in the mountainous jungles of Laos to the Gibbon Experience, a 3 day/2 night stay in a Laotian jungle treehouse accessible only by zipline. First …

We awoke at dawn to the sound of Gibbons, although we couldn't see them it was quite an experience waking up to the sounds of the jungle (and not the ones on those annoying relaxation CDs). Our breakfast arrived by zipline (what a novelty) brought by a smiling Laotian jungle local and after we'd chowed down it was time for some more ziplining and …

From Chiang Rai it is easy to cross the boarder to Laos. A short bus ride of 1 hour and than with a boat across the Mekong. After all formalities were done we arrived in Huay Xai, a small town which is now dedicated to the Gibbon Experience meaning to say that you can buy all necessary utensils in all shops along the main road (torches, gloves …

The journey to Huay Xia involved a bus change at Luang Namtha, where I had arrived at 11am, in plenty of time for the 12.30pm bus or so I thought – as the bus had filled up it had already departed! The time of the next departure, well, when full, of course, which occurred at 2.30pm – the workings of the Lao bus timetable!

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The Gibbon Experience

What a privileged opportunity to be able to do this. Zip lining for up to 410m at a time and at 140m above the ground and over the canopy of the rainforest, sleeping in tree houses with the chance to see gibbons in the wild.


We had to work for it though...due to it being the rainy season the jeep was …

Nach dem Trekking machte ich mich auf in das winzige Doerfchen Baan Donchai, wo ich am naechsten Tag aufgelesen werden sollte, um am "Gibbon Experience" teilzunehmen. Fast die gesamte Busfahrt ueber fuhren wir auf einer zukuenftigen Strasse (d.h. Baustellen-dreckstrasse), die spaeter als Highway von Thailand nach China dienen soll. Puenktlich zur …

The Gibbon Experience is hidden up in the north western area of Laos. You need to get a 15 hour night bus from Luang Prabang (totally gorgeous and blew us away) up to Huay Xai. It's likely that anyone else on their way to the experience will be on the same bus too.

The bus was FREEZING! Not just cold, but actually teeth chattering, shiver …

... ) to the Sabadee Guesthouse (Hello in Lao) where we got a double room for $4. Then went a few doors down to find 'The Gibbon Experience', where we were going next to find out our joining instructions, etc and for dinner at a restaurant where Dave and I ...

After one of the worst bus rides I have EVER had, Tom and I arrived in Huay Xai and headed straight to the Gibbon Experience office.  The Gibbon Experience is a conservation project set up by a French man for the people of Laos.  It is in the ...

Last week, we had one of the highlights of our trip. We finally found the Gibbon Experience, we had heard about from other travellers when we were still in Cambodia. It sounded like something we just couldn't miss, but it was not easy to find. They have ...

If you only go on one more holiday in your lifetime make it to Laos and do the Gibbon Experience. We have just had the best 3 days ever!! We set off into the jungle with new friends Gonke, Kyle and Darren and old kayak buddies Nicole, Kim and Brad all ...

Huay Xai (pronounced Way Sigh) on the Laos side of the Laos-Thailand border, is the base of The Gibbon Experience, a 3 day, 2 night adventure that involves sleeping in a treehouse and zipwiring through the forest - oh, and looking for Gibbons. It's ...

... my head rubbing up against the line while I was busy filming and not paying attention to my body position. Anyway, the Gibbon Experience is more than just ziplines. It's a program set up by conservationist to protect the unspoiled Bokeo Forest Reserve ...

... over the Mekong to Laos arriving in the small town of Huay Xai where I ended up staying for a few nights to undertake the Gibbon experience. Gibbon adventure Gibbons are monkeys that live deep in the jungles of South East Asia and were once thought to be ...

... way then logging companies do from deforestation!  Anyway its not all deep and meaningful.....its amazing fun too!! Doing the Gibbon Experience basically means getting in touch with your inner child (or not so inner in my case) and making like a ...

... what really went on, but in a very small nutshell.... I've been in the Bokeo Natural Reserve on something called the Gibbon Experience. Black Gibbons were thought to have been extinct, apparently. A French chap setup the gibbon Project to protect the ...

... drinking flavoured Laos Whisky with the two Ozzy dudes.. opps! They also managed to convince me to book onto something called the gibbon experience, unfortunately i could not get on their day and had to go the next but I still booked it up. In Laos ...