Our adventure of the day is canyoning, which includes trekking through minimally marked trails, drainage areas, Rio Baiguate, rappelling and zip lining, ending at Salto de Baiguate (where we were yesterday during the afternoon rainstorm).
Glad this is a guided trip, its challenging to see the trail ahead. It is a warm, sunny morning.
Me rappelling down the first canyon.
Hugo, one of two our guides, is belaying Kristoff, another tourist from Germany.
The guides, Hugo and Adonis found a few crabs hanging out in the water.
Instead of sliding down this little rapid, we jumped into the pool below. Here's Ryan mid-flight. When it was my turn, I jumped in, went under, grabbed onto the guide's harness underwater, slid through his legs and popped up on the other side. Glad I didn't grab onto anything else between his legs!
Ryan, Kristoff and I in a precarious spot next to a rapid in between some huge boulders.
Zip line time.
Ryan's turn.
Our last rappel, which I was a bit nervous about. It helped to avoid looking down. We all made it safely just about 80 ft down Salto de Baiguate.
Its much prettier when its sunny out :)
After canyoning, we cleaned up, had lunch, checked out and headed southwest toward the city of Constanza. On our way we visited another waterfall, Salto de Jimenoa Uno.
I have noticed here in DR that people often use what they can from nature, like this vine that holds a fence post to the railing.
The road to Constanza.
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