Our last full day in the rainforest area of Costa Rica, we went on an all-day combo tour: canyoning and white water rafting. Cas asked me what canyoning was, and I couldn't explain it other than to say a former co-worker said this was her favorite thing she did in Costa Rica. So off we went to meet at the tour office at 6:50am. And again we had a private tour - three guides and the two of us to rappel, hike, jump and free-fall down waterfalls. After a short practice waterfall, we headed down one of two nearly 200 foot waterfalls.
We rappelled a short way, and then the guide at the bottom would tell us to let go, in a controlled free fall to the bottom.
Posing in front of the waterfall we just rappelled down -
After hiking along the stream, we came to a pool of water. Our clothes were dry, but we were highly encouraged the cannon ball into the little ravine.
Soaking wet, we hiked a bit further, and then sat along the rocks, being instructed to hold on (clearly we blindly obeyed bizarre instructions that Wednesday).
Down came the "tsunami" they created by one of the tour guides lying down against the stream to dam up the waterfall above us and then moving out of the way -
Thoroughly soaked and ready for the next big waterfall -
Once again, started with rappelling (and posing) -
Then we let go and screamed our way to the bottom -
We had a blast on our first time canyoning -
After that, we went back to the tour office, picked up another couple, and headed to a class 2-3 white water rafting trip. We enjoyed meeting them, trying some new fruit on the way to the river - and then along the river as the tour guide would pull off fruit from trees along the way. We lucked out with a great, sunny afternoon on the river - there were higher level of rapids on other tours, but I preferred a fun trip over white-knuckle rafting. We saw a sloth, bats, iguanas and I swore I saw a monkey but no one else spotted it. It was a fun-filled final day in the rainforest.
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