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I was with my sister in Yok Don National Park where it got dark about 6pm, at which time the air filled with millions of flying insects of different varieties, all swarming and buzzing around in different directions.  Our room was in the National Park – loads of trees had to be cut down in order for the huts to be built!  It’s supposed to be a national park, therefore conserving nature but instead just abusing it for monetary purposes.  I felt guilty for funding it.  We had to run through the hoards of bugs, which seemed to be purposely aiming for us, to the cafeteria.  The cafeteria was packed full of them too, there were thousands of them, everywhere and loads of dead ones on the floor.  They were like wriggly maggots with wings, it was sick (I h.ave a huge bug phobia!) 

The food arrived and we had to eat it really quickly as the flying maggots were all flying into our heads, and our dinner – it was like some kind of horror film, or “Arachnophobia� but with wings!  Everyone was staring at us like we were freaks (we were screaming and trying to dodge them).  The waiter said not to worry about them and to just eat the ones that land on your plate – like it was normal!  There was no way that I was up for that, but I did have to eat around one.

After dinner we ran back to the room and there was what looked like a baby crocodile outside our door and the biggest stick insect I have ever seen, which was on the door of our room, right by the lock so we couldn’t get in.  Meanwhile all the flying maggots were still attacking us so we had to brave it and hope that the stick insect wouldn’t get us and both got into the room as quick as possible.  The bug spray that we sprayed before we left still hadn’t cleared and it hurts your lungs to breathe it in.  We tried making gas masks out of socks and pajama’s but it didn’t help, we just looked stupid. So we reverted to turning all the lights off (as they attract more bugs) opening the window and holding a mosquito net over it so no bugs could get in, then put the fan on in the hope that the room would air out. 

We stayed like that for an hour!  I was so glad to have a mosquito net to sleep under that night. The next morning we awoke to find our doorstep covered, completely (no joke) with the dead winged beasts, it was nearly enough to make me puke.  We couldn’t wait to leave.

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