For zipling, you get into a harness with a couple of lopps on your chest. You climb up to a platform high in a tree with a connecting that tree to another a few hundred meters away. One of chest-loops hooks onto a pulley that slides on the wire. As a back-up, the second chest-loop is also connected, by way of a c-clap, to the wire. (Don’t break the wire.) You ride sideways with your left shoulder leaning, your right hand lightly holding the wire behind you for balance and braking. We didn’t see animals while ziplining, but it’s fun crossing the thick green valleys at high speed and so close to the treetops. And after the tour we saw monkeys and a small mammal resembling a capybara. Besides the canopy tour (i.e. ziplining) we also went hiking in the Santa Elena Forest and then took a guided night hike in a private reserve. It was a great kind of tired that we felt at the end of the day. It was still very windy outside, but there was plenty of hot water.
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