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Walk over the Suspension bridges

View from the suspension bridge 3 in the depth
Looking through suspension bridge No. 3

They are long, they are high and they are transparent! For me, this would actually mean a collective mental breakdown or at least wobbly knees, a queasy feeling and a fit of dizziness. Normally, I just need to look down through something and that’s enough to feel the first indications of my acrophobia if I’m in a height of two metres.
On the chain bridge of Selvatura it is different fortunately. But I don’t know what the difference is. In true I only get a strange feeling on the third bridge, I think because it is 377 feet long and 215 feet high.

the third suspension bridge is managed
suspension bridge No 4

However you have to overcome yourself to do this walk, it is really worthwhile in dry climate. In this way we can see many beautiful things in the tree tops as well as on the tight forest canopy, where we see many epiphytes on limbs and tree fern from every sight closely.

in front of every bridge there is such a shield
Annette and Lars, high above the ground
on the bridges are always a great insight on the open canopy of the forest

Furthermore we didn’t believe how lonely we were on the most parts of this circular path. This happened because it is either too exhausting or too boring for the most tourists (but this is a real misjudgement). A few minutes after we began the tour we hear the buzz of the canopy cable winch and we see sometimes a canopy breeze over the trees in direction of the valley. We only meet some other tourists because we stay a long time on the chain bridge.

Bridge 4 is done
View of the dense canopy

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