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Specialists in Central America adventure travel, GAA operate good value, small group tours of Costa Rica. Discounts |
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Costa Rica zipline tours of the rainforest, such as this section near La Fortuna.
One
of Costa Rica's more popular adrenalin activities is the
flying fox [otherwise known as a wire slide or zipline]
tour, where you slip on a safety harness, clip on to a wire
and rocket from one tree-top platform to the next, hoping
not to plummet to the forest floor 80m below.
There are close to a hundred operators in the country but
choose wisely and not necessarily the cheapest - there is
a safety factor involved, so ensure that equipment is in
good shape, fits snugly and your guides are sensible and
sober.
Skytrek [3hrs, 2km/1.25m] in Monteverde [private] Park offers
the biggest wire slide, including one 400m slide, with 80m
suspension bridges.
A Costa
Rica 'hanging bridge' near Arenal volcano.
© Gary Hartz, Dreamstime.com
Alternatively for those who wish for more forest study and less speed, canopy tours include high suspension bridges [sometimes known as sky-walks] and platforms from where travellers can eyeball wildlife horizontally, getting a far better view of monkeys and birds than is possible from the ground.
Costa Rica rainforest
If you prefer to hike through the rainforest instead of scooting over it at speed, this is the kind of scenery you may expect. Hikes can be an hour, half a day, a day, several days, with guide or without, well marked trail or not, all options are open in the 'jungles' of Costa Rica.
White-water rafting on one of Costa Rica's famously unflagging rivers.
Due
to the country's regular, heavy rainfall and hilly topography
white-water rafting aficionados and kayakers have a superb
variety of wet river runs that are the envy of most other
countries and attract activity professionals in training
from all over the world.
San José is close enough to a couple of serious rivers
to offer day trips out to the Reventazon or Pacuare, or
longer excursions further away. La Fortuna also provides
trips out to several fine rivers, as does Quepos in the
Central Pacific, or head for the white-water capital, Turrialba
in the Central Valley.
And finally, one of many neat, low cost golf courses in Costa Rica if adrenalin activities are in your past...
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