My Middle Eastern Adventure!: Flight of the Gibbon

Flight of the Gibbon - an hour's drive north of Chiang Mai

Ok, so on to another blog post from our Thailand adventure........this time we went for the day to do "Flight of the Gibbon" which is a jungle canopy tour where you zip line between platforms for over 5 km. (you wear a harness, clip yourself onto a cable and fly at great speed hundreds of feet above the jungle floor....) This was AMAZING!!!!! :) If you have no fear of heights, then I definitely recommend doing this! I'm still smiling from it! :)

We were all set to go with harnesses, helmets and clips!

Kim carefully was deciding whether or not she was going to make it off the first platform.....

My turn!!! :)

There she goes!

Us after our first couple of zip lines........so fun!!! :)

Here's a good pic to see just how big the leaves of some of these plants are.....I am that little blue speck zipping by in the background......those leaves are bigger than I am!

It was kind of hard to take a lot of pics of the scenery as we were flying through the jungle canopy, but we did get a few! Here is one looking back from the platform we were standing on to the platform we just "zipped" from.......most times you could not see the platform you were zip lining to, which made it that more exciting! LOL

Looking back at the platform we just flew from! :)

Looking up at some of the overhead foliage......these leaves were HUGE!

Lots of vines!

Another platform that looks hidden in the tree.....

Overlooking the canopy from a high point!

There were two short sections where we could zip line two at a time, so that was cool! We actually took a quick video clip during one of them. We actually ended up taking out the guy that was on the platform ready to catch us as we flew to the next platform. Poor guy. We laughed about that for the rest of the day.

The tour is called "Flight of the Gibbon" because it goes through a part of the jungle where the gibbons live. We had been warned by friends that most of the time, people never actually see any gibbons, so not to get our hopes up. Luckily, we did get to see one and she had her baby with her, who was super cute!!!! :)