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LANGKAWI CANOPY ADVENTURE

Air-trekking is a novel way to experience the rainforest. Also known as "flying foxes", it's a way of traveling from point to point in the tree-canopy along steel cables using special runners that are attached to you via a climbing harness. Founder Juergen Zimmerman has laid out a series of canopy-runs, abseil descents and traverses that help you to learn all the basic techniques.

The Langkawi Canopy Adventure enables air trekking from tree to tree in the midst of one of the world's oldest rainforests. This is a unique new way to see the canopy level of the rainforest where many unique and beautiful plants, birds, butterflies and animals live.

The adventure is broken into seven stages and takes two hours or more to complete. In addition to air trekking - the term for swinging across cables connected between trees - it involves abseiling and walking across a ravine on a single cable.

The early part of the route is deigned to help you learn the basics and this is essential as the final run is the longest and extends 120 m long and ends on a tree platform built some 30 m high.

A training session before starting is provided by Juergen of Langkawi Canopy Adventure who makes sure you have the skills required to proceed. The canopy course has been carefully laid out to allow the most inexperienced beginner to learn the basics of "air-trekking" and abseiling, the two main skills needed to complete the entire course.

After climbing a ladder up a tree you are hooked to your safety harness and cables. You sit on the edge of the high platform let yourself go. An odd mixture of fear and exhilaration makes your flight through the canopy all the more fun.

You glide silently to the next tree, and continue the process through a series of platforms high above the forest floor. A thrilling 100m air trek ends at the top of a 30m high fig tree and an abseil from this tree to the ground concludes the adventure.

Cool clothes, t-shirts and shorts are okay but good shoes or trainers are a must. Energy-bars or some kind of snack is useful if you need an extra burst of energy before your turn on a run.

Langkawi Canopy Adventure Air Trekking Price: RM. 230( USD 75) per person. Price include all training & equipments only.

Note: NOT INCLUDED RETURN TRANSFER. Please be at book village at 8.30 am to join this tour.

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