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Ride the Cables Zip Lining in Costa Rica

Published September 16, 2009
Sidonie Wybourn, Writer

As I stood on a tiny wooden platform, staring down into the impossible depths of the lush Costa Rican Rainforest, I began to reconsider my decision to try zip lining for the first time. After the first leap into the forest-abyss, overwhelmed and exhilarated from my jungle flight, I was hooked on Costa Rica zip lining. The small town of Montezuma, located on the southern tip of Costa Rica’s beautiful Nicoya Peninsula, is famous for it scenic waterfalls and coastline. A canopy tour in Montezuma is an unrivaled means of exploration, simply put, it is Costa Rica zip lining at its best. The Canopy Tour takes visitors across 9 cables and 11 platforms situated 1200 meters above the forest at different points along the Montezuma ...

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Set deep in the Bokeo Nature Reserve in Northern Laos, The Gibbon Experience uses its funding to help protect the region's wildlife and jungle. What this means for participants is three days living with nature, trekking and zip-lining through the jungle, and two nights sleeping in a tree house at canopy-level, some 50 metres above ground. On day one of the Gibbon Experience, seven of us packed into the back of a truck and were taken one hour north of the border city of Houei Xai. We then bounced around for another hour, along winding dirt roads deep into the jungle of the Bokeo Nature Reserve, before we began our trek in a small Laos village. After going further up the mountain and deeper into ...

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