Yeliz at Costa Rica Canopy Tour

Location is San Lorenzo Rainforest in Costa Rica. For those of you that do not know what a Canopy Tour is:

It is an activity of exhilarating ziplines of swinging through the tree tops (called "canopies")...

Modern canopy tours were invented in the 1970's when the rain and cloud forest canopies were the last remaining frontiers of botany, zoology, entomology and ecology. Ph.D. students Donald Perry and John Williams first strapped on their rock climbing harnesses, clicked their carabineers on to a belay line, and grabbed onto their jumars to ascend a tree instead of a granite face. It wasn't long before the techniques began to improve and specialize. Someone introduced the Tyrolean traverse (sliding along a horizontal rope) so the researchers could move between trees without returning to the ground. The inclined Tyrolean made it much faster and more fun to get back to the ground at the end of the day.Soon entrepreneurs saw the entertainment value and the commercial canopy tour was born. Far and away the most popular type of tourist canopy tour is a series of traverses and slides that has little to do with exploration and everything to do with exhilaration. Steel cables, some measured in kilometers descend entire mountainsides and riders fly along at hair-raising speeds and heights where the trees look like tiny dots.

This particular activity in my Canopy Tour was appropriately called "Tarzan Swing" ...:o)

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Travel & Events

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• Canopy
• Zipline
• Zip-line
• canopy
• tour
• adventure
• rain
• forest