Apaneca Canopy Tour

Over the weekend I went with a group of people to the Canopy (Zip line) tour in Apaneca, El Salvador.

 Diagram showing all the lines, height and length

We arrived too early so we started our day wandering around the little town. After doing that for about an hour we loaded up into their trucks to head up the mountain.

 We were all outfitted with helmets, harnesses and gloves.

A short walk up the hill brought us to the first of the zip lines. The first six lines were all pretty short. These are the ones to get everyone used to doing it. You are not very high off the ground and don't go very fast one these ones.

Then you get to number seven, which is over the valley. It is the highest and the longest one. This one has the best views, and because our group was large enough you could see the others going across the valley on the lines eight and nine below you.

While in the tree platform between lines ten and eleven it started to rain. The tree stopped most of the rain, as we waited out the heaviest of it. We had to change gloves because the wet cables required different leather pads to slow down. These gloves did not work as well as the earlier gloves did on the dry cable, but they were still enough to manage your speed.