August 14, 2013 / Selvatura Park & Monteverde Town

The next day we headed out to Selvatura park for a canopy tour. This trip had two parts – zip line over the canopy and an hour long hike with 8 suspension bridges providing breathtaking views of the cloud forests. The zip line was awesome – it almost felt like having a single seater aircraft with no cover around you – especially in the longer sections. We had a section that was 650 meters long and another that was a full km long. For those that were willing to brave it, there was a tarzan swing – jumping off a platform some 20m high and slowly swinging to a stop. Jana, Kavya and I didn’t miss this opportunity. I am now ready to do my first bungee jump! When she realized that zip lining involves letting your feet go off your ground, Jaya decided to spend the time with her feet firmly planted on the ground and went on a tour of the butterfly garden by herself while we were monkeying around the canopy of the Monteverde cloud forests.

Lunch was rice and palak paneer in our cabin. After that, we walked to Monteverde town center where there was a cheese factory. The last tour had left for the day by the time we reached, so we just ended up eating some delicious ice cream from that place before heading back. A little dog had decided that Monteverde was too boring and wanted to take a walk to Santa Elena. It walked all the way with us and my feeble attempts to issue doggie instructions in Spanish didn’t work. When I told the dog ALTO firmly, he just looked at me and continued to walk along, sometimes ahead of us and sometimes behind us. We all were concerned that the little fella made it to his destination without any mishaps!