Canyoning

This article is a travel topic Canyoning (or: canyoneering) is about going in a bottom of a canyon, which is either dry or full of water. 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. 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. Destinations Asia Vietnam Dalat Australia and New Zealand Australia Blue Mountains (available from Wentworth Falls) New Zealand Queenstown Europe Austria near Salzburg near Salzkammergut Bosnia = near Banja Luka Croatia near Omiš France Alpes Maritimes Pyrenees, though shorter than in Spain Vercors Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Hautes-Alpes around St-Clément-sur-Durance Germany Bad Reichenhall Kempten (Allgäu) in Bavaria Greece Acheron (available from Paramythia) Enippeas in Larissa Prefecture, Thessaly Slovenia near Bled Bovec (Sušec stream, other canyons) 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 Switzerland Interlaken Turkey near Kaş Yazili in Isparta Province United Kingdom Wales: Brecon Beacons North America United States California: Los Angeles South America Brazil Cassorova Valley in Bahia (from Brotas) São Paulo: Fortaleza Mountain (available from Caconde) Chapada dos Veadeiros Ecuador near Baños International operators Below is the list of operators which organize canyoning in other countries than the clients they serve: Austria Abenteuer Schule, [1].  edit Netherlands Team Fokiwa, [2]. Based in Netherlands, organize tours to France and Italy.  edit This is a usable article. It touches on all the major areas of the topic. An adventurous person could use this article, but please plunge forward and help it grow!