Best white water rafting trips in New Zealand
Top 5 Best White Water Rafting Day Trips in New Zealand New Zealand is a young land with tectonic forces still aggressively pushing the mountainous spines of both major Islands upward. Combine these mountain ranges with generous amounts of rain and what you get is some of the best technical white water rivers on the […]
Ngaruroro River Rafting
Capturing the Ngaruroro Taking part in a River Valley rafting adventure on the Ngaruroro River shows us a different view to how most of us normally view its waters, ending as it does at the Waitangi Estuary near Clive, its muddied form mingling with the Tutaekuri River before it empties into the Pacific. Sourced in [...]
Finding the Right Family Rafting Trip
How To Find The Right Family Rafting Trip Peter had this to say about the trip. “The total sense of isolation and wilderness began within 10 minutes of launching the rafts, and lasted until we saw some fishermen an hour before reaching the take-out site. This was exactly what we had been looking for when [...]
Rafting the Zambezi River in Zambia, Africa
What Is On Your Bucket List? Way before the movie "The Bucket List" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman came out, I had already created a bucket list of river trips that I wanted to do. Heading that list was the Zambezi River, especially the section below Victoria Falls that forms the border between Zambia [...]
Inspiration found rafting the Zanskar River, India, Ladakh
Finding Inspiration on the Zanskar It was a rapid called "Constriction" on the Zanskar River in Ladakh, a province of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in North Western India. Constriction is not really a hard rapid. A simple wave train flows down into a very narrow short canyon. The canyon is full of confusing [...]