These days I'm investigating some places to visit soon, I'm interested in some extreme activities, especially one that I did some time ago and I would like to repeat, but in another location: canopy, do you know it? It is a circuit of cables installed in several trees and the idea is that you move between them, a bit like Tarzan but instead of a liana you hang from the cable.
The photos I share are from that time, I went with friends on a Saturday to live the experience in this zip line. It was inside the Waraira Repano or Ávila National Park, in Caracas (Venezuela), specifically in Los Venados Park Ranger Station, which is in the area of Cotiza.
Before we started flying through the trees, the people in charge of this activity gave us a brief instruction, helmets and harnesses. The action began with a short walk along a trail through the forest to the area where the canopy circuit began.
When we looked up we saw the first platform, it was super high, through a ladder made with boards and rope that was in the tree trunk we climbed one by one to it.
There was the first part of the circuit, the cable through which we were going to move hung between the tree where we were and the one in front of us. Wow, when it was my turn to jump I got a little nervous, but I was excited hehe.
They give you a special glove to control the speed, you put your hand on the cable and you go like braking, you move at the pace you consider until you arrive, ready, I did it!
Then we had to cross a suspension bridge, it was almost as exciting as the zip line, it's not so easy to cross it, you have to step in the middle of the boards so it doesn't wobble.
In total the tour is just over 250 meters, has five platforms in the trees and it takes about an hour to do it. Between the height of the trees you can sometimes see the city in the distance, spectacular!
When you reach the last stretch of the canopy circuit it is time to descend from the heights and the way is by rappel, it is about 30 meters, very fun!
Something I forgot to ask is what species of trees these are, as I stepped on the ground again I observed them from below and they seemed even more beautiful and powerful.
What did you think? I hope to repeat this experience soon in a longer canopy circuit that is located in another place, I will share it here 😊.
Photos taken with a Sony Cyber Shot digital camera