Selvatura Park is home to zip lines, hanging canopy bridges, butterfly park and an insectarium. About half the group opted for the zip line and the other half of the group opted for the hanging bridges. The zip line folks also had the option of the Tarzan swing, a terrifying thing that is half bungee jumping and half gigantic swing.
Nelson, a 77 year old member of our group, did the zip line AND the Tarzan swing. He earned some huge cred from the group for that!
We opted for the canopy bridges and walked with Ricardo almost the entire time. He found things in the cloud forest we wouldn’t have seen or known about on our own and how is funny to boot. On our ride over to the park we stopped at a bakery where Ricardo picked up a couple of bags of bread and other treats for the workers at the park. He takes them food because they help him out and sometimes they are so busy they don’t get a chance eat.
As Ricardo would say, ir was a perfect day in the cloud forest. That is to say it was cloudy and, in fact, raining. We saw a beautiful rainbow in the morning, when there was a break in the clouds. The windy is stronger than Fargo’s wind and the rain was going sideways for a while. The walk through the canopy was about three kilometers, all well paved with not too many steps.
There are eight hanging bridges varying in length and height. A few were in the lower part, some in the middle, and one above the canopy. I liked the one above the canopy. It was quiet and being quite high we found that the rain had stopped and we were in the clouds. The wind was still blowing and we could hear the water dropping in the forest beneath us, sort of a soft golf clap kind of sound.
I would not say open heights are my thing and there were a couple of times the bridges would sway or the wind would blow quite hard and my stomach would flip or a panic would set in. After a while I got my sea legs, so to speak, and it wasn’t a big deal.