Flying like a gibbon

Posted by Full mooner on June 30th, 2010 filed in Action, Tourist tips

I’ve done a few excursions on Samui in my time here, not the temples or the religious trips though; I’m more of an adrenalin junkie type of guy, 4×4 off roading and things like that. Just last week some friends were over from the UK and said they wanted to try out the Canopy Adventures…
Canopy Adventures is where you get to fly through the trees on zip lines about 80ft in the air. There are two things I don’t like; boats and heights but I thought I couldn’t let my mates down!
The first hairy thing was the ride to the site on the north of the island in the back of a 4×4 pick-up truck. You go down some narrow lanes and the last little climb to the starting point has got to be at least 45 degree gradient.
Once there we sat down and we were given full instructions on safety measures, the equipment and how much fun we were going to have. A short trek up the hill to the starting point was a killer but the view of the waterfalls and surrounding forest was amazing.
With two instructors taking six of us around I did start to lose my fear of heights; only slightly. One instructor went down first so he could presumably catch us at the other end. It was an awesome ride although the sudden rain shower was a bit of dampener.
In all there are six zip lines to fly down and only one of them was a bit hairy with my slight 13 stone struggling to slow down. After the zips we got to relax in the waterfalls for a little while before being taken back home in the afternoon. The wife pointed out to me over a beer that my fear of heights was not brought up once throughout the whole journey.

I’ve done a few excursions on Samui in my time here, not the temples or the religious trips though; I’m more of an adrenalin junkie type of guy, 4×4 off roading and things like that. Just last week some friends were over from the UK and said they wanted to try out the Canopy Adventures…

Canopy Adventures is where you get to fly through the trees on zip lines about 80ft in the air. There are two things I don’t like; boats and heights but I thought I couldn’t let my mates down!

The first hairy thing was the ride to the site on the north of the island in the back of a 4×4 pick-up truck. You go down some narrow lanes and the last little climb to the starting point has got to be at least 45 degree gradient.

Once there we sat down and we were given full instructions on safety measures, the equipment and how much fun we were going to have. A short trek up the hill to the starting point was a killer but the view of the waterfalls and surrounding forest was amazing.

With two instructors taking six of us around I did start to lose my fear of heights; only slightly. One instructor went down first so he could presumably catch us at the other end. It was an awesome ride although the sudden rain shower was a bit of dampener.

In all there are six zip lines to fly down and only one of them was a bit hairy with my slight 13 stone struggling to slow down. After the zips we got to relax in the waterfalls for a little while before being taken back home in the afternoon. The wife pointed out to me over a beer that my fear of heights was not brought up once throughout the whole journey.

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