It started with a zip line: 1,050ft long and 130ft above the ground.
“I promise I won’t let you go until you’re ready,” said Sangjay, the young general manager of Shinta Mani Wild, the much-admired tented camp by designer Bill Bensley, set deep in the wilderness of Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom National Park.
As he edged me ever closer to the drop, murmuring assurances of safety, the distant roar of the waterfall urged me on and adrenalin, getting the better of jet lag, carried me off over the rainforest canopy.