Zippidy do dah

Sunday April 20th

Today we all went up Salta canyon to go white water rafting and/or zip lining (also called canopy - although this was nowhere near the tree tops). It was a bit of a trek out to the site to do the zip lines and rafting, which was up quite a distance from the town.

As I had been rafting recently in New Zealand, I went for zip lining only, which was 9 zip lines, over about 3k of zip lines, some of which were up to 100 meters above the canyon. Those of us only doing zip lines had to do a trek up a mountain side to get to the first one which was not too much for those who had done the canyoning two days ago, but was a bit tricky for others. This go us to our first zip line, where after a briefing and demonstration we had our first go. It wasn´t anyway scary, in fact it felt a lot safer attached to the line than it had on the climb up. The equipment looked OK and I guess the fact that the place was run by a German guy helped put my mind at ease.

The zip lines themsleves were cool. After the first one, our second was one of the longest of the day, over a 100 metre drop to the river below. And then we worked our way back down the canyon, ending in 3 more 500 metre long cross canyon lines. It took about 3 hours, because there were 12 of us, and each zip did take a while, and obviously only one person could go at a time. But it was an enjoyable time, as we were all able to take photos of each other.

Afterwards we rejoined the rafters, and had a massive BBQ again, with loads more meat. Then the rafters went off to do their 4 zip lines, and some of us stayed and drank beer while wathcing them. For some reason they had a lot more errors, people getting stranded in the middle, than the first group, so we were rightly entertained.

And after all that it was back to camp for hamburgers, prepared by my cooking team. We made two each, and to be honest I was dubious that they would be eaten considering the amount of meat at the lunch. But amazingly every burger was eaten. And then we retired to our last night of camping.