When we were planning this trip I made the mistake of telling the girls that you can zip line in the jungle within the Angkor Temple area. They didn’t forget.

After two days of temples they were ready to zip line. I am afraid of height but have zip lined before on holidays with the girls. Nigel decided to stay at the hotel with John and relax and the girls and I headed off.

I had read that the zip lines were 45 metres up in the tree tops. This had never really registered with me until I was climbing up to the first platform. 45 metres is very high. It is three quarters the height of Liberty Hall in Dublin. I was secretly hoping the girls would be frightened and we would have to quit but no such luck.

So we braved zip lines and sky bridges in the treetops for 2 hours. At one stage Katie went too slowly and got stuck half across a zip line and had to be rescued by a guide who went out to her and pulled her in on a rope. I have to admit I have had nightmares since reliving my 11year old hanging from a cable 45 metres up in the Cambodian jungle.

The whole operation was very well run by a group from New Zealand to international standards and they had warned the girls that children do get stuck on some of the ziplines and that they are not to panic they will be rescued within minutes.

I have no photos of this because I broke my own iphone screen in Laos and no one wanted to risk theirs in my pocket while I swung through the trees.