Tsitsikamma Canopy Tours (South Africa)

The Tsitsikamma National Forest is home to the Tsitsikamma Tree Top Canopy Tours, a unique form of eco-tourism that contributes to local jobs and funds the regeneration of a protected forest. The tour consists of platforms which have been constructed high up in the trees, with sets of zip wires between the platforms. The construction is unusual in the sense that the platforms are fastened to the trees in such a way that there is "no harmful penetration of the trees", i.e. no nails or anything that could in anyway damage the trees have been used. This sounds a little worrying considering how high up you will be but they have been built to the strictest safety ...  Read the complete review