Yasika Adventures Zip Lining the Dominican Republic

Zip lining in the Dominican Republic? Why not? I heard about zip lining and that was it. I wanted to do it. There are a few different places we looked at and we narrowed it down to Yasika Adventures Zip Lining and the Monkey Jungle Zip Line Adventures.

The Highlights of Yasika:
- They come pick you up and drop you off
- 10 platforms/8 zip lines
- Reach heights of 985 feet above the ground (speeds up to 30 mph)
- Fruit Cocktail at the end

The Highlights of the Monkey Jungle Zip Line Adventures:
- They come pick you up and drop you off
- All proceeds go to charity (100% of your purchase goes to an on-site medical/dental facility)
- 7 Stations, 3 suspense bridges and a descender into a cave
- If you are worried about safety, this is the only ACCT certified zip line on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic.
- For a combined donation you get to visit the Monkey Jungle & Zip Line Adventures which means you get to feed monkeys and check out that area.

As you probably guessed from the title of this post, we ended up going to Yasika Adventures Zip Lining because it fit into our schedule better. But I would love to go back and check out the Monkey Jungle Zip Line Adventure sometime. It just sounds awesome. Descending into a cave!? Feeding monkeys!? It all sounds super fun to me.

The Yasika Adventure team came and picked us up in a Safari truck and drove us approximately 30 minutes to their course where we suited up and headed to the first zip line.

I love riding in Safari trucks. No windows is my favorite thing ever!

The ride up to the Yasika Adventure Zip Line Course was beautiful!

10 Stations and 8 Zip Lines

Me and Jen suited up and ready to go.

First person to test out the zip lines and make sure they are safe ;)
(nobody else wanted to go first so I didn't even have to fight for it) I was stoked at this point!

Mike giving it a go!

One of the 10 platforms on the Zip Line course.

The engineering behind the zip line course.

I really wanted to zip line backwards or something and add a little more thrill to the ride.
Most people have something like Jiminy Cricket in their mind telling them what to do and what not to do. I have Mike to tell me what's safe and what's not.

Home Base aka the Last Platform

Our mouths are open and it's the only group picture we got. This is an example of why you should say CHEESE when someone tells you to say ZIP LINE.

Mike was awesome! He does not like heights yet he did every single zip line like a champion. No hesitation just maybe closed eyes ;0) He said it wasn't too bad - he just didn't look down a lot. Before we went I asked him on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited he was. He said a 0. I said, "Mike! You have to at least be a 1 or a 2 because you are doing it and you know you don't have to do it!" I don't know if he will ever zip line again - but I think he enjoyed it this time around.

This little Yasika Adventure helper climbed up the passion fruit tree to get us some fresh fruit. It looks shorter than it was because I was looking down on him, but it was a pretty tall tree and he scaled it like it was nothing. (To be young and live in a jungle.)

The fresh Fruit Cocktail at the end of the course.

We laid some fruit on the bar of the hut and lizards(?) started coming out of the woodwork to eat it. (Seriously in a 5 foot span I counted almost 15 lizards at one time.) In the top right picture, can you see all three lizards - they are awesome at camouflage.

The course went by super quickly! I feel like all 5 of us did it in around 30 minutes. I was bummed. I wanted to go again. I am excited to try out other courses though because I will be zip lining again :)