I cannot recommend The Original Canopy Tour highly enough.
We chose The Original Canopy tour over the competitors for a number of reasons, namely 1) we were staying at The Cloud Forest Lodge, so it’s less than 30 seconds walk from our room, and 2) it just seemed a bit less ‘school trip’ and much less commercial than the other big players.
We booked on to a 10:30am tour in early June. Our guides Tuca, David and Pedro were clearly a highly professional yet fun and friendly team with a huge focus on safety. In our group there were 7 of us in total.
I love heights so wasn’t nervous at all, but my boyfriend is petrified, but they recognised this and were patient and extra reassuring for him.
We started with the Tarzan swing as a ‘warm up’, and it really is so much fun! It’s a short 10 min trek from the office. After that it’s all zip lining, with a cool rappel and tree climb in the middle.
Throughout the cables David had our phones and cameras and took so many ‘action’ videos of us zip lining. When he saw monkeys in the trees he even took the phones with him on a cable and stopped half way along to take close-up pictures of the monkeys in the trees only a few metres away. He went above and beyond.
We were unlucky with the weather, a huge storm started right before the last two (the 800m and 500m cables - the longest two they have!) so sadly we had an early end to the tour and we had to miss them. It was far too dangerous with lightening striking close by. However the early finish was so slick - one quick call and within 2 minutes someone from the office was close by, helping us rappel down the tree, and accompanying us back to the nearby van to take us all back to base.
The cherry on top though..... the next morning we went back to finish the last two cables off!! (complementary). There was no fuss at all, we simply joined a group at the end of their tour and tagged on to the last two cables.
The guys make a great team, they are 100% fun, friendly and safe. Thank you very much!