Zipping Along

By Haakon

9/30/2019

This week I got to go to the Monteverde 100% Aventura Canopy Tour way up in the jungle tree tops. We drove four hours to Monteverde from Samara and most of it was dirt road with huge rocks, potholes, on a ridgeline not to mention we were in the middle of a lighting storm most of the way there. I ended up waking up at 5:45am due the noise from the wind outside. When I finally got up from bed and stepped outside, I was glad to see that the weather had cleared up, that wind blew away the clouds and rain. Next I had the best mango at breakfast – the day was looking good.

We were picked up at 7:15 by a tour bus to go to the top of the mountain where the start of the ziplines are. Once we got there the guides gave us a tutorial on how to safely break when going 35mph (according to the guides). Finally I got to go ziplining; the first 7 stretches were from 50-600 ft long then we finally got to the longest zipline in Latin America! It was 1,590m long and our guide said it was about 600ft above the forest floor. I got on and went across – it was crazy high.  When I got to the other side I was instructed to either go back to the main area, or do the Tarzan Swing. I obviously chose to take the the Tarzan Swing. You walk out to a suspended platform 148ft above a clearing where you jump off and lose all your guts for 5 seconds while dropping 100 ft into a really fun swing up to the trees. If you ever get the chance you should definitely go.