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Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Zipline Destinations and Canopy Tour Locations I rode my first zipline in Monteverde, Costa Rica, in 2014, and I remember three things from that day: the moment I stepped off the platform and forgot how to breathe for about four seconds, the sound of the cable singing above the rainforest canopy, and the toucan that flew past me roughly halfway down the longest line - close enough that I could see the bill texture clearly, distant enough that no photograph could capture it. Monteverde basically invented modern canopy tours in the 1990s, and they remain among the world's best. But the zipline industry has spread globally since then, with destinations now ranging from Welsh slate quarries to Costa Rican rainforests to Mexican copper canyons. What ziplines do uniquely well is provide aerial perspective without aircraft. You're moving through landscape rather than over it. Trees rush past close enough to identify specie...

Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Skydiving Destinations Around the World I jumped over Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand, in 2019, and I will tell you what I told the friend who'd been pestering me to do it for years: the freefall is not the part you remember. The freefall is biology - wind pressure on your face, body trying to flatten itself, brain too overwhelmed to process anything specific. What you remember is the moment after the parachute deploys. The sudden quiet. The harness yanking gently as the canopy catches air. The five-minute glide back to earth where you're suspended above some of the most beautiful landscape on Earth, just hanging there, taking it in, with nothing to do except look. This is why destination skydiving exists as a distinct travel category. A skydive over a flat field is mostly about the technical experience. A skydive over Lauterbrunnen Valley, the Palm Jumeirah, Lake Wakatipu, or the Great Barrier Reef is abou...