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Canyoning (or: canyoneering) is about going in a bottom of a canyon, which is either dry or full of water.

[edit] Understand

Canyoning combines elements from swimming, climbing and jumping--but requires relatively little training or physical shape to get started (compared to rock climbing, scuba diving or alpine skiing, for example).

See also: Rock climbing.

[edit] Techniques

There are several kind of techniques in a canyon, which are also features of a specific canyon:

• sifons (dive-under)
• vertical rappeling (or abseiling)
• horizontal abseiling: moving over a rope above a river from one side of canyon to another
• jumps
• slides (toboggan in Spanish)

Plus trivial techniques which are used in virtually every canyon with water: walking, swimming, climbing to large stones.

Other characteristics of a canyon are length, duration, altitude difference; time to get in to a canyon start and to get out from its finish.

[edit] Destinations

[edit] Asia

[edit] Vietnam

• Dalat

[edit] Australia and New Zealand

[edit] Australia

• Blue Mountains (available from Wentworth Falls)

[edit] New Zealand

• Queenstown (see also Nine days in New Zealand's South Island)

[edit] Europe

[edit] Austria

• near Salzburg
• near Salzkammergut

[edit] Croatia

• near Omiš

[edit] France

• Alpes Maritimes
• Pyrenees, though shorter than in Spain
• Vercors

• Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • Hautes-Alpes
    • around St-Clément-sur-Durance

[edit] Germany

• Bad Reichenhall
• Kempten (Allgäu) in Bavaria

[edit] Greece

• Acheron (available from Paramythia)
• Enippeas in Larissa Prefecture, Thessaly

[edit] Slovenia

• near Bled
• Bovec (Sušec stream, other canyons)

[edit] Spain

• Alava

• Andalucía:
  • Sierra Nevada
• Aragon:
  • Sierra de Guara (available from Alquezar)
  • Pyrenees (available from Alquezar)
• Asturias
• Burgos
• Cantabria
• Galicia
• Guipúzcoa
• León
• Mallorca
• Navarra
• Vizcaya

[edit] Switzerland

• Interlaken

[edit] Turkey

• near Kaş
• Yazili in Isparta Province

[edit] United Kingdom

Wales:

• Brecon Beacons

[edit] United States

California:

• Los Angeles

[edit] South America

[edit] Brazil

• Cassorova Valley in Bahia (from Brotas)
• São Paulo:
  • Fortaleza Mountain (available from Caconde)

• Chapada dos Veadeiros

[edit] Ecuador

• near Baños

[edit] International operators

Below is the list of operators which organize canyoning in other countries than the clients they serve:

[edit] Austria

• Abenteuer Schule, [1].  edit

[edit] Netherlands

• Team Fokiwa, [2]. Based in Netherlands, organize tours to France and Italy.  edit