Our second hotel was also very nice. The best thing about it was it was now an hour closer, with no rush hour issues, to where we had to be at 9am for our zipline adventure. If we had known what kind of roads we would be driving on that morning we wouldn't have even have attempted staying near San Juan the night before. I’m sure the ride to the starting point of our tour was more dangerous than anything else we were going to do that day. The two way road, that was only one lane wide, was so steep at times that you’d come over a hill and see nothing but sky. You had to just believe that there was a road in front of you and not a big cliff! The ride in our car was bad enough, but the ride in the pickup truck with the eleven of us participants and the two tour guides was almost as terrifying.

Once we got to the start of the ziplines though it was a blast. We walked across a big suspension bridge and hiked up to the first platform where we got our lessons on how to zip and land. Above is a picture of Bill zipping across to where I was standing. If you look right in the middle of the picture you can see him coming down the line. We went across eight zip lines and did a seventy foot rappel down a large mountain face. They didn't mention that part of the rappel was a freefall so we were all pretty surprised when the rock face disappeared from under our feet and we were dangling in mid-air 50 feet off the ground! Everyone came through fine though.

When we were finished with the ziplining and rappelling we got into a couple of row boats and paddled down the river through a beautiful cave. There were lots of bats in the cave. Imagine our surprise we saw a bunch of tubers coming in the opposite direction. I think our tour was a better choice! After we got back to the shore with the boats almost everyone else climbed up on a big rock and jumped into the river. Not me though. I had proved myself enough already, I didn't need to do that. Then everyone else piled back in the pickup truck and Bill and I went with one of the guides on the extended part of the tour. We walked through the river and into a couple more caves before finally climbing up the hill and ending up back where we started. It was a beautiful hike and was double worth it because we didn't have to get back in that pickup truck!