The Excitement of Adventure Travel

What can be more exciting than adventure travel? Participating in adventure travel is special and allows you to experience life to its fullest. When was the last time you did this? Probably back when you were young. However, there is no better time than now to experience everything that life has to offer.

Adventure travel can cover a whole range of great vacations and they don’t have to include risky stunts that are dangerous. Sure, maybe bungee jumping off a cliff is not for everyone, however, every adventure tour has a different comfort level. An adventure tour can include many types of vacation trips that are exciting and that are a little out of the normal.

Some adventure tours include traveling down the Amazon river or visiting mountain villages and experiencing the way of life of the local population. Or combining an eco-adventure trip with treetop tours in Costa Rica.

Rincon de la Vieja is one of Costa Rica’s many beautiful national parks. There you will find breathtaking nature and an adventure you simply can’t find at home. Rincon is about 25 mile north of Liberia, located in northern Costa Rica with a major airport served by major airlines daily from North America. The park has miles of hiking trails and an active volcano and tours on the treetops of the rainforest.

How does a treetop tour work? Guests are outfitted with a rock climbing harness and heavy leather gloves and transported to the rainforest. From there groups are taken up to a platform built into the top of a tall tree. From there, you can see that there is a network of platforms running through the rainforest’s canopy.

After a serious safety lecture, your guide hooks your safety line to the steel cable running to the next platform and then you’re off, flying through the air in the middle of a rainforest. When you arrive at the platform a guide will assist you to travel to the next platform.

The canopy tours are a very exciting and safe adventure that gives you a whole new feeling for the rainforest. As you move from platform to platform, (there are 10 at Rincon), the guides will deliver an informative lecture on the rainforest including the research into medicinal plants that are being discovered in the jungle. They say they have never had an accident in over 10 years and their oldest tour adventurer was an 87-year old woman.

If you’re looking for a good dose of excitement and don’t have an inordinate fear of heights, and are in reasonable physical condition, a canopy tour in Costa Rica is a safe choice.