Adventure Includes:
- 4 Rappels (3 waterfalls and 1 rock wall) in a rainforest
- Hiking on beautiful trails in the canyon between rappels
- Waterproof jackets
- Transportation to and from your hotel in the La Fortuna/Arenal area
- Bilingual Professionaly trained guides
- Professional photographer (cd for purchase at the end of the tour)
- Tipico Costa Rican style lunch served at our open air ranch house located at our base office just outside La Fortuna
- Beautiful spa-like changing rooms with hot showers and bathrooms
What to bring:- Fast drying clothing (surf shorts, outdoor hiking type synthetic clothes)
- Adventure sandals, tennis shoes, or light hiking boots
- Change of Clothes
Everybody from climbers & athletes to beginners love it!
No Experience necessary, kid friendly.
Private & group tours available.Tour TimesThere are two tours a day, 7:00AM and 12:00PM, they are approximately 4 hours in duration. Both tours include lunch at our base camp and snacks in the canyon.
Below are the details that Pure Trek has adapted in our canyon to make the sport of Canyoning into a safe exciting tour for anyone.
- They always send 3 guides, 2 at the top of each rappel and one at the bottom. When we reach 14 passengers we send 6 guides to divide the group into 2 groups to maintain a very high guide to client ratio. One guide at the top is on upper belay using a friction device (guarding the safety rope for the client rappelling) the other guide at the top is in charge of connecting the client to the main rappel line. The guide at the bottom is on lower belay using a friction device. Both guides at the top and bottom on belay are there to stop the client if needed, the client is in control of the rappel but the guide is there to help if needed.
- The clients rappel from platforms and are always connected to a safety cable. They are not disconnected from the safety line until they are safely connected to the main rappel rope.
- They use set anchors similar to cable wraps used in Canopy tours, connected to large trees on each side of the canyon that have very deep roots and are far from the edge of both sides of the canyon, this is due to the fact that in Costa Rica there is so much erosion due to the amount of rain. The cables are the anchors are also there to sustain the rope the client is rappelling from. It also maintains the rope at a 90 degree angle that helps the client rappel as well as the life of the rope.
- They work with a structural engineer with all our cable set anchors and the building of our platforms. We inspect all the anchors everyday before each tour as well as all our trails.
- 90 percent of our trails are out of the waterway. They have exit trails at the top and bottom or each rappel.
