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

    Austria

  • near Salzburg
  • near Salzkammergut
  • Croatia

  • near Omi?
  • France

  • Alpes Maritimes
  • Pyrenees, though shorter than in Spain
  • Vercors
  • Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
  • * Hautes-Alpes
  • **around St-Clement-sur-Durance
  • Germany

  • Bad Reichenhall
  • Kempten (Allgau) in Bavaria
  • Greece

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

  • near Bled
  • Bovec (Su?ec stream, other canyons)
  • Spain

  • Alava
  • Andalucia:
  • *Sierra Nevada
  • Aragon:
  • * Sierra de Guara (available from Alquezar)
  • * Pyrenees (available from Alquezar)
  • Asturias
  • Burgos
  • Cantabria
  • Galicia
  • Guipuzcoa
  • Leon
  • Mallorca
  • Navarra
  • Vizcaya
  • Switzerland

  • Interlaken
  • Turkey

  • near Ka?
  • Yazili in Isparta Province
  • United Kingdom

    Wales:
  • Brecon Beacons
  • United States

    California:
  • Los Angeles
  • South America

    Brazil

  • Cassorova Valley in Bahia (from Brotas)
  • Sao Paulo:
  • * Fortaleza Mountain (available from Caconde)
  • Chapada dos Veadeiros
  • Ecuador

  • near Banos
  • International operators

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

    Austria

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  • Netherlands

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