From the Nyabitaba hut in the rainforest to the John Matte hut

From the Nyabitaba hut it goes through dense bushes and partly "knee-deep" mud – rubber boots with tread sole are from now on the ideal "hiking companions" – on trails known as the "most arduous trekking paths in the world" through the mountain rainforest. The path leads through dense rainforest, swampy forest paths and moors, past an almost incredible plant world that hardly seems real, and one runs the real risk of losing track of time and space. The Mbuku River is crossed in the riverbed, steep stairs and wooden ladders are overcome. Soon trees with strange "Old men's beard" (long lichens and mosses hanging from branches and trunks, similar to the tree beard we have in the Alps) appear, it becomes almost pitch dark on the ground as only a few percent of daylight penetrate to the jungle floor. Over steps and new wooden ladders the trail finally continues to a small "shelter," a covered resting place in the middle of the jungle. Deeper and deeper you penetrate into the