Punta Cana: Zipline & Monkeyland Combo with Lunch

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Duration8h

GroupUp to 90

LanguagesEN · DE +2

PickupAt your hotel

Two Adventures Back-to-Back: Ziplining and Monkey Feeding in Punta Cana

You get picked up from your hotel, zipline across 12 cables through the forest canopy, eat a Dominican lunch, then spend 45 minutes hand-feeding and interacting with squirrel monkeys at Monkeyland. All equipment, entry fees, transport, and hotel drop-off are included. The whole day takes most of your daylight hours, but you're not waiting around — you're moving between two separate adventures.

Step-by-step itinerary

Zipline and monkey interaction adventure

Zip line across Dominican forest
Visit the Coconut House
Feed and interact with squirrel monkeys

The Experience

The driver picks you up from your hotel early, and you're in an open safari truck heading into the forest before you've finished your coffee. That's when you realize this isn't going to be a half-day thing — the whole day is packed. You're doing the zipline course first, 12 cables strung across the canopy, and then heading straight to Monkeyland for a 45-minute session with the squirrel monkeys. Most people do one or the other. This combines both, which sounds ambitious until you're actually doing it.

The zipline part moves fast. They suit you up with the harness and helmet, run through the safety briefing, and then you're clipped in and stepping off the platform. Twelve cables means you're not just doing one run — you're working your way across the forest in stages, each one a bit different. The guides know the rhythm; they've done this hundreds of times. Between cables there's time to catch your breath, drink water, and actually look at where you are. The Dominican forest is thick and green, and from up there you see it differently than you would from the ground.

After the zipline, you get lunch — Dominican typical food, nothing fancy, but real — and then it's on to Monkeyland. This is the part that surprises people. The monkeys are small, curious, and they will climb on you if you let them. You're feeding them by hand, and they're grabbing at your fingers with their tiny hands. The staff tells you not to wear sunscreen or bug spray before this part because it harms them, so you show up clean. Forty-five minutes sounds short until you're in it; it goes fast because the monkeys keep you moving. You're watching them, they're watching you, and there's a lot of laughing happening.

The whole day runs long — you're looking at a full commitment from pickup to drop-off — but you're not sitting on a bus the whole time. You're active, you're moving between two completely different things, and the lunch break gives you a moment to reset. The transport back to your hotel is included, so you don't have to figure out how to get home after you've been ziplining and playing with monkeys all day. Book at least 24 hours ahead; they run rain or shine unless there's a hurricane warning.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off from selected hotels, entry to Monkeyland, full zipline equipment and harness, transport in an open safari truck or coach bus, bottled water throughout the day, and a Dominican typical lunch. All 12 zipline cables and the 45-minute monkey interaction are part of the package.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditions

Operated by Runners Adventures

Is this one for you?Book this if you want two separate adventures in one day without arranging transport or timing between them yourself — the fixed schedule and included pickup handle all the logistics, leaving you free to focus on the ziplining and the monkeys.