Day 11 ... zip lining and back to the beach

Today we checked out of the cabinas to begin the 4 hour drive home but first we had one last adventure in Monteverde.  We headed to Selventura for our first zip lining experience.  It was neat to zip above the trees.  The highlight for me was the first platform where Drew spotted some monkeys playing in the trees above us.  Molly zipped with a guide most of the way (also a highlight for me as I knew she was perfectly safe).  The boys were pros with no fear from the beginning.  Unlike the rappelling place, these guys started with easy zips first and we all did them all!  

monkeys in the tree above

molly riding tandem with the guide

the traffic jam

After our zipping, we started our trek down the mountains.  We wanted to start by lunchtime or before because the heavy rains come in the afternoon and we wanted to be off the twisty dirt roads before them.  Its a good thing we did … After about an hour in which we went about 18k, we came upon a traffic incident.  At first we thought it was a rock slide.  There was this big pile of rocks, an ambulance stopped on one side sort of off the road, a pickup truck on the other side coming the other way.  I am smart, immediately I am questioning the rock slide theory.  First of all the sides are not like a steep cliff, second they are covered with vegetation that seems undisturbed, third they are a GA red clay color and the rock pile is more brown-grey.  So its not a rick slide but something even more strange (to me).  They put the rocks here on purpose … And left … Was someone supposed to come back later and spread them out to improve the road?  We never saw that person.  What we did see was the ambulance drivers, the pick up driver and others moving rocks from the pile to under the ambulance (which got stuck in the side ditch trying to get around the rocks).  We helped and eventually, the ambulance gets pulled out by the pickup, the passengers (!!!!) get back in and it is able to drive away.  20 minutes later we are able to carefully drive around and away too.  As far as I know, the rock pile is still there.  We passed a tour bus parked on the other side, there is no possible way it will be able to turn around or get around those piles (in our opinion) - poor tourists.