THE ZIPLINE GUIDE · THE WORLD BY CABLE
Clip in, step off, and let the valley fall away.
Reviews of the best zipline and canopy tours on earth, destination by destination. Jungle circuits above Chiang Mai and Phuket, the Taurus rafting canyons behind Antalya, Hawaii’s volcanic gulches, the Riviera Maya cenote drops and the Costa Rican cloud forest where the whole sport began. We read through the listings so you book the run that’s worth the harness.
Worth the airfare
Three canopy runs that belong to one place.
A scenic zip exists in almost every resort town now. But a cable across a Turkish rafting canyon, an afternoon of sky-bridges in the Thai hill jungle, and a flight over a Hawaiian volcanic gulch happen in these places and nowhere else on earth.
The line everyone books
If you only clip in once.
The most popular run on the whole site, by a clear margin. A safe first booking if you are new to ziplining or new to the destination.
The classics
The World’s Most Popular Zipline Tours
Kauai, Punta Cana, Rotorua, Puerto Vallarta, Oahu. The canopy runs travellers book first, in the places they most want to fly.
Where to clip in
Pick your destination.
Hawaii and the Smokies for scenic American flights. Thailand for the longest jungle circuits. Turkey for canyon zips, Mexico for cenote drops, the Dominican Republic for big mountain lines, Costa Rica for the cloud forest where it all started. Each place, with the runs it does best.
What flies beneath you
Pick what you want under your feet.
What you fly over changes the whole day. Three kinds of run, sorted by what is below the cable, depending on the kind of rush you are after.
Antalya & the Turkish Riviera
Turkey hides its ziplines in the mountains.
Behind the beach strip from Antalya to Alanya, the Taurus range splits into deep limestone canyons cut by fast green rivers. The cables run right across them. Most days roll the zip into a full adventure package: white-water rafting through the Koprulu Canyon in the morning, an off-road buggy through the dust, then a line strung high over the same gorge you just paddled. Loud, dusty and completely unlike a flat-coast scenic glide.
See the best zipline tours in Turkey →Cancun & the Riviera Maya
In the Yucatan, you zip into the ground.
The jungle behind Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum is honeycombed with cenotes, flooded limestone sinkholes the Maya held sacred. The big adventure parks run their cables straight over them, so the line ends with a splash-down into cool turquoise water in a cave. Zip, rappel and ATV through the jungle, then cool off underground. A canopy day with a swim built into the finish.
See the best zipline tours in Mexico →The whole point
The fear at the platform, then the grin all the way down.
Every line is the same little story. You stand at the edge while the guide clips the trolley to the cable, you look down once and wish you had not, and then your feet leave the platform and there is nothing under you but air and the valley. By the second line the fear is gone and you are leaning back, going faster, hunting the next one. You come back wind-burned and loud, already planning the longer course.
Browse every zipline tour →The Thai hill jungle
Thailand built the longest courses in the trees.
In the forested hills above Chiang Mai and along the green ridges behind Phuket, the canopy courses go on and on: thirty, forty platforms linked by cable, abseils down strangler figs, sky-bridges that bounce underfoot, a roller-zip that runs like a small rollercoaster. Half a day clipped to a guide, gibbons somewhere in the canopy, the forest floor far below. The most committing canopy day in Asia, and the best value too.
- 1 From Koh Samui: Tree Bridge Zipline and Café Experience
- 2 Chiang Mai: Kingkong Smile Zipline with Lunch and Transfers
- 3 Phuket: Paradise Jungle Zipline Adventure
By how hard you push it
How fast do you want to go?
Some people want a gentle glide over the canopy with a guide doing the work. Some want the full afternoon course, sky-bridges and all. And some want the long, fast canyon lines that make the harness hum. Pick the intensity, we will point you at the run.
Ease into it
A scenic glide over the green.Short, gentle lines strung over rainforest and waterfalls, with a guide clipping you in each time. The view does the work; you just lift your feet and watch the canopy slide by.
The full circuit
A whole afternoon in the trees.A dozen platforms linked by cable and sky-bridge, with abseils and a roller-zip between them. The classic canopy course: long enough to lose the nerves and start carving the turns.
Go big
Hit the long, fast lines.The headline runs: high over a rafting canyon or a deep gorge, fast enough that the harness hums, often paired with rafting and a buggy so the whole day runs hot.
The Caribbean’s biggest lines
The Dominican Republic goes big and fast.
Behind the all-inclusive beaches of Punta Cana and Puerto Plata, the land climbs fast into green mountains, and the cables there are some of the longest and steepest in the Caribbean. Multi-line courses drop hundreds of feet across jungle ridges, often bundled with buggies, horseback and a splash in a river or the sea. The classic shore-excursion adrenaline day, done at full volume.
See all 19 zipline tours in the Dominican Republic →By launch point
Pick where you take off.
Antalya for the Taurus canyon lines. Phuket for the jungle-hill circuits. Maui for the rainforest gulches. Cancun for the cenote splash-downs. Chiang Mai for the longest courses in the trees. Punta Cana for the big Caribbean mountain runs.
By country
Every country worth flying a line in.
From the volcanic valleys of Hawaii to the Thai hill jungle, the Turkish canyons to the Riviera Maya cenotes, the Kiwi forests to the Costa Rican cloud. Browse by the country you want the cable strung across.
Your first time on a cable
How a first canopy day flows.
Never clipped onto a zipline before? Here is how a course runs, from the harness and the ground school to the long headline line you will not stop talking about.
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