Located between Sosua and Cabarete, 9Km up El Choco, RD, Monkey Jungle offers something for every age. Open 7days a week, 364 days a year, this 280 acre working farm provides a 4,500 foot ACCT Certified Zip Line with 7 Stations and a free fall fan descender dropping almost 60 feet into an ancient cave. You will also tour a five acre botanical garden located in an old grotto, with 45 squirrel monkeys posing for pictures, sitting on heads and shoulders, without fear of humans. A large enclosure houses rescue capuchins who entertain and provide countless memories. All profits from these venues goes to charity.
Venue 1. ZIP LINE ADVENTURES is 4,500 foot ACCT certified
zip
line
with 7 stations and 2 suspended
bridges,
one with a free fall belay
device
(fan
descender) that drops you over 50 feet into an ancient bat cave. This course is suitable for all ages, from 2 to 92.
Experienced
guides
lead
guests
through the mountain top to mountain top course. MJ is proud to serve people with special needs.
This
tour takes about 1.25 hours depending on group size.
Venue 2. BOTANICAL PARK Located in our ancient grotto is a botanical park with 40+ free roaming squirrel
monkeys.
These monkeys love visitors and love to sit on shoulders, heads and feed from special plates. This is the best photo opportunity in the DR. At the bottom of the grotto is an enclosure for
our
rescued
capuchin monkeys who have been physically or nutritionally
abused.
There are 100’s of other free roaming animal throughout the park. This tour takes about 30 minutes.
THIS IS HOW WE INVEST YOUR MONEY! The Monkey Jungle and Zip Line Adventure was founded by Chuck and Candy Ritzen after the LeonLaroche Clinics at Monkey Jungle started in mid-2009 with visiting Nashville pediatric dentist, Dr. David Snodgrass, pulling teeth in the rear of a Dodge pickup truck. By the end of 2009 we finished our small Dental and Medical clinics. Then Chuck Ritzen met Dr. Gerry, a retired orthodontist from Canada, and his wife, Sandi, and with their skill the clinic blossomed. At the same time, it was apparent that we needed a commercial attraction to expand, maintain and perpetuate these free clinics. The ideas to open a zip line and jungle where monkeys could enjoy their native habitat were born. Today in 2016, Monkey Jungle and Zip Line Adventures have been visited by over 50,000 guests and the free clinics at have treated over 21,000 medical and dental patients and had +45 health care teams volunteer from 3 to 6 days each. Over 25,000 free prescriptions have been dispensed. In early 2013 Monkey Jungle Dental Clinic was expanded by 500 square feet to include two more operatories. Your visits to Monkey Jungle and Zip Line Adventures help support our efforts. Thank you all.