Zipping Through the Rainforest
- November 9, 2005
- Rated 5 of 5 by
jodellebobelle from Kimberling City, Missouri
For $45 per person, you will find yourself starting off on horseback trekking up into the rainforest. My first time on a horse was here and they are very sane and great horses, with great guides who fit you to the perfect horse. Once you reach the rainforest after about 20 minutes, it's time for some fresh fruit while you get harnessed up for your canopy tour through the rainforest. Now you'll know what it's like be Tarzan! Your experienced and caring guides show you all the tips to remember and then... you feel your heart race as you zip down your first cable, faster than you would ever imagine. The thrill and the adrenaline rush is to die for!! Nine cables zip you around the jungle stopping just briefly for some light hiking. Truly breathtaking. But the best part? The last cable. This is the one where you definately want to look down. It's a 300-foot cable that you zip for 30 seconds straight and right over the top of a gigantic rushing river. This is something you won't want to miss out on when you come to Costa Rica. And if you're lucky, you may see a monkey or two!
From journal God is Good in Costa Rica
Rainforest Canopy
- March 25, 2004
- Rated 5 of 5 by
katiemustard from hollywood, California
A canopy tour in the rainforest is the closest thing that any human could ever do to becoming a real-life Tarzan. Guided through the rainforest, along a series of trails that lead to a rope ladder that falls inside of a giant hollow Fig tree, you begin by climbing 50 meters up to a platform, and then, attaching your harness into a rope and pulley system, you are sent zooming across the sky hundreds of feet above rainforest tree tops at lengths of 200 meters or more and at speeds up to 40 miles per hour, from platform after platform. The tour has absolutely nothing to do with bird watching (as it claims) and everything to do with adrenaline rushes--I had the time of my life!
From journal Finding Delight in Disagreeable Destinations