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By Luke Barnes | March 23, 2009

A soon as we get back from London we have the daunting prospect of going to Sikkim at the end of the week. For myself and Luke Shackleton (one of three Lukes) this is the first expedition with proper jungle and we are both very excited. Both Luke Lucas and Ben Stokes have been on jungle expeditions before but never to this part of the world.

Simon Pugh-Jones is the only one to have been to Sikkim before and informs us that it’s a brilliant experience. The final member of our expedition team is Lauren Walton from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, who is tagging along partly as the first-aider, partly as the second adult and partly for fun!

We fly out Friday afternoon meaning we get an a bus from Bath Spa at the extremely sane hour of 8:30.

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This is my 6th year involved with the project and now run the Micropropagation Lab and administer the website. I've been to Sikkim, in the Himalayas and also to the Cape Town flower show and am looking forward to going to Laos later this year. My favourite orchid probably has to be Coelogyne cristata.

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