Fourth Stop-Monteverde

Monteverde-May 30th. We made our journey around the peninsula and ferried back to Puntaranes....and on to Monteverde. Monteverde is more centrally located and is popular for it's Rainforest canopy zip-line tours. My friend has most of the pictures from this city...I'll have to show them to you later. They are awesome. There are a lot of cool shops in this town and our favorite restaurant called the Treehouse Restaurant and Cafe...where they offered 30 min. free internet with every meal. Right up our alley. ;) (Pictures: Above/right-cab ride back to Monteverde. I've got an amish curl thing goin on, which is cute.? It was pouring rain all day. Left-On the staircase up the tree to the restaurant. It was actually in a tree. You can't tell, but you have to duck to miss huge limbs as you go up the staircase. Leslie is the blonde and Ally has the dark hair. Les is my roommate...just an fyi.)
Let me tell you about our canopy tour....it was called the Extremo tour and was it ever. It's the highest canopy tour in Monteverde and it included zip-line, a free repel and a tarzan rope swing through the rainforest. It was amazing. The clouds were hanging down over the rainforest and it was raining almost the whole time, but it just made the adventure more exciting. So far you've only seen cloudy pics, but I swear the sun was out in every city we went to...except for this one. Anyway...back to the tour. We'd zipline and completely disappear in the clouds--I couldn't see 3 ft. in front of me. It was crazy. The guides were awesome and let us go up-side-down on one of the zip-lines. Scary when you're so high...and disappearing in the clouds, but it was a rush. I've gotta say, though, that the tarzan swing was probably the most exciting. You stand on this platform and jump off (or the guide just pushes you off in my case...I was nervous) and the rope doesn't really catch for the first couple of seconds cause it's such a long rope, so you feel like you're falling to your death. But then the rope catches and you start swinging like Tarzan through the forest. SO fun!!! I have it on video, but not here. Sorry. The free repel was awesome as well. You are harnessed on a rope and just hang probably 70-80 feet in the air....until the guide at the bottom lets you go. Again, the falling to your death scenario fits here. The guide at the bottom completely controls your speed, so you're at his mercy. He stopped the free fall about 20 feet from the ground and then brought me slowly down the rest of the way. The girls made me do all of these first, by the way. They said I was the bravest of the three. Flattery-it's a killer. Not feeling the love so much when they told me they wanted to make sure it was safe. Hey-what about that "you're the bravest" bit? But I was...and they meant it-at least that's what I keep telling myself. ;)