On our final day in Mindo we felt a rainforest tour wasn’t quite complete without zipping through the canopy suspended from 2 wires by a harness. Apparently they use a 2 wire system here rather than the 1 we have used before as a few years ago 1 broke and 5 people died! Geoff shared that little pearl of wisdom as we stood in line for the first of 10 zip lines (thanks for that!). It wasn’t scary although I did refuse the offer to travel upside down, a wise move given that when Cara did it she screamed “ow ow ow it really hurts” most of the way across and when Geoff did it he was walking like quasi modo for a shortwhile after together with a beautiful set of friction burns above his hips. The thing is with zip lines when you’ve done them once the buzz factor isnt there which I guess is why people do more extreme versions like flying face first across a gorge (see previous blog “a day of weather) . It was good fun though, the views were great and the 2 guides were very sociable working hard to make sure we enjoyed it.
Couldn’t resist a canine reference somewhere in here. We saw this sign everywhere in the streets in Mindo.
It translates as “he who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul”, what better reason for sharing your burger and chips with this lovely boy.
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