Although, to be fair, I didn’t fall and I didn’t lose my shoes. My arm’s ‘hold-on-tight’ muscles ended up embarrassingly sore as did my feet’s ‘don’t-lose-my-flip-flops’ muscles. Other good things to know: You don’t actually have to hold on quite as tightly as I did. You can’t miss it.Ĭost: I think it was about $5 per person. Where: Right along the waterfront in Guatapé. When: I should have paid more attention to all the details but it seemed to be open all day and into the evening. What: A zip-line, of course! Thick cables tow you up to the top and then you zip back down to the bottom.
There was also a much smaller and safer zip-line for little ones. If you ever find yourself in Guatapé, here are the details. It was in Guatapé that we strapped ourselves into the rickety harness of the small, waterfront zip-line and hoped for the best.ĭespite the loud sound, I barely felt the impact.
Instead, we did what we could, where we could. Our trip was a short one and we didn’t have time to make the trek up into any wild jungles. Right now you’re probably picturing us careening through a tropical jungle dodging snakes, vines and drug lords – it wasn’t really that kind of zip-line. Most recently, I used my aluminum foil nerves on a zip-line in Colombia. You don’t have to have nerves of steel to hike the extremely steep ancient temples in Tikal (like we did here), brave some white water rapids in Honduras (like we did here) or even tempt fate with sketchy electrical elements in your shower. For these activities you only need nerves of, oh I don’t know, aluminum foil. Luckily, for all of the not-willing-to-take-the-time-to-learn-something and/or non-athletic travelers (I’m both), there are still plenty of things out there that satisfy that urge to get your blood pumping and add a (healthy) amount of fear to a trip. Okay, I lied, I do have the time, but it just sounds so hard. I am not those people.ĭon’t get me wrong – adventure travel is great for some people but I just don’t have the time to commit to all that training to become an expert at anything.
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