He was kidding but the woman

seemingly didn’t have much of a sense of humor. We pile back into the min-van

and drive to the beginning of the zip-line. Our guide introduced himself with “Hi.

My name is Crash!”



I hadn’t realized I have a healthy respect for heights until

it got closer to my time to go and wasn’t really thrilled about falling off the

ground suspended by a little cable. However, when I saw a little girl go, I

thought I couldn’t chicken out, how lame would THAT be? 

 


The first one was the hardest and it was exhilarating


zipping through the trees (sometimes the trees seemed VERY close) and the open

expanses towards the next tree in the line.  The bamboo brake was the first brake, Crash

explained, with the guide on the platform a second brake and the final brake


being the very solid tree. 

 


We zip-lined, abseiled and crossed suspension bridges, it

was SO FUN!!!!! Finally after a few kilometers we end up on the pinnacle of

trees in the rainforest.  I watched my

team members get hooked up to the front of their harnesses and go back over the


platform, one by one. Finally, it is just Crash and me when I hear a metallic SNAP and

feel the hook connect to the back of my harness. Now it is a much different


experience leaning back and going off a platform than facing the fall. I couldn’t

do it, would go to the edge and just freeze.




I say to Crash, “I can’t I can’t” and he says “ I have


guided you these kilometers and I am not going to let anything happen to you

now, am I. Now go, you can do it!”

I go back to the edge, seeing my fellow

zip-liners as ants on the forest floor and fall forward! Plummeting, plummeting

fast, oh so fast, and I feel my bamboo brake catch on a branch and scream “STOP!”


fearful of wrenching my shoulder and Crash had that line stopped immediately!



Stretching my arm towards where the brake was caught, I finally give up on the

brake and take my wrist out of the band and the brake spirals down to the


ground. Start up again, flying towards the ground where I land safely and

everyone is envious that they didn’t get to go face first instead!



Highly recommend this experience!!! Just do it!!