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. Destinations Biana loves JOHN <3 Australia and New Zealand Oksana looves keevin <3 New Zealand Queenstown (see also Nine days in New Zealand's South Island) Europe Austria near Salzburg near Salzkammergut 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 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]. Netherlands Team Fokiwa, [2]. Based in Netherlands, organize tours to France and Italy. Do There are several kind of techiques in a canyon, which are also features of a specific canyon: sifons (dive-under) rappeling jumps slides (toboggan in Spanish) Plus trivial which are found 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. This article is still a stub and needs your attention. It does not have a template. Please plunge forward and help it grow!