Selvatura Park has its very own Canopy Tour adventure! Our tour is the only
canopy tour built entirely inside the cloud forest.
In this tour, visitors will cross through the unique cloud forest canopy suspended
over the forest while attached to a high weight capacity cable and using the best
climbing gear which combined provides with a wonderful experience that will not be
easy to forget.
 This tour not only combines the thrill of one of Costa Rica’s most
safe and popular adventures, but also provides a unique view point of the cloud
forest canopy which was only possible to enjoy by scientists until recently.
The tour starts up at the main dressing room where our visitors will get geared up and will be transported immediately to the instruction platform.
At the instruction
platform our expert guides will instruct and provide our visitors with all the
necessary guidelines for a successful tour completion.
Next our visitors will be taken to the first platform where they will start the tour.
Visitors will cross through the forest canopy passing through three sections of
cables in which they will need to take small walks in between each section.
During
one of these walks they will reach our Tarzan Swing where those with an
adventurous spirit will surely get a blast.
The Tarzan Swing is a side activity included in the tour where we give our visitors
the option of swinging through the forest while attached to a high security rope,
with which they jump out of a platform and experience adventure at its best. After
this the tour will continue until our visitors arrive once again to ground level.
The tour consists of 12 cables, 18 platforms and one Tarzan Swing. There is a total of 2.0 miles of total cable length. It is suitable for people of all ages although it’s not recommended for certain people with extreme weigh excess. Visitors should wear
long pants, hiking boots and depending on the weather some rain gear.
This tour lasts two and a half hours approximately.
TREE TOP WALKWAYS (SUSPENSION BRIDGES):
There are many bridges systems in the world, few of them are hanging bridges,
and fewer still are those that are located inside the real cloud forest. Selvatura
Park´s treetop walkways provide the best way to safely admire the cloud forest
canopy.
 The treetop walkways tour consists on 1.9 miles of trails in which our visitors will encounter eight bridges of various lengths which range between 170 feet and 560 feet. Each bridge features 5 foot width and capacity of 80 people per bridge which make the treetop walkways at Selvatura Park not only the longest bridge system in Costa Rica but also the safest and strongest.
Also Selvatura Park’s treetop walkways are fully approved by the College of
Architects and Engineers of Costa Rica, which ensures that they were constructed
following only the best construction standards and thus provide the best quality
available.
Come and admire these awesome structures which were built in San Jose,
transported to Monteverde and carried on shoulder by our workers to be
assembled inside the cloud forest thus minimizing damage to the cloud forest as
much as possible.
The treetop walkways can be enjoyed by people of all ages and physical
conditions.
Most of the trail is flat and climbs are very small. The trail is a circuit so
our visitors won’t get lost and may walk at their own rhythm. This year all our trials
have been covered with special walking blocks which provide an enhanced traction
for our walkers and provide a more uniform terrain to walk along the trails, which
cross 90% though virgin forest. Our visitors may be able to appreciate a wide
variety of flora and fauna from the area plus, they will be able to observe the
biodiversity of the cloud forest canopy which is not found anywhere else in the
world.
The treetop walkways neighbor with the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, the
flora and fauna in both parks is very similar because they are part of the same
forest with the difference that Selvatura Park is located on the Atlantic side of the
forest and the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is on the pacific side.
Visitors should wear comfortable footwear, rubber boots aren’t necessary since
there is no mud on the trails. Also we recommend wearing a light jacket, long or
short pants, and optional binoculars and cameras.
The treetop walkways provide
the best vintage point to observe the beauty of the cloud forest in all its levels.
This activity lasts between one hour and a half and two hours.
NATURAL HISTORY WALKS:
As a complement to the Treetop Walkways you can hire a Natural History Walk
which provides our visitors with a broader and more thorough experience of the
marvels of the cloud forest, they are conducted by naturalist guides, which ensures that each walk will
have a biological, ornithological and cultural approach of Monteverde and the cloud
forest.
Although the treetop walkways may be completed independently, the Natural
History Walks are highly recommended on the fact that our clients conclude the
tour very satisfied with the information received and above all with the personalized
attention they receive from the guides during these walks.
Our Natural History Walks are formed of groups of up to 8 people at a time,
although different options may be worked out for bigger groups regardless of their
size.
The Natural History Walks through the Treetop Walkways take between two hours and two hours and a half.
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