15 Bucket List Rivers & Adventure Trips for 2015
Hamish McMaster
With another fun filled year upon us, what are the must do adventure trips for 2015? Here are our ‘bucket list’ (in no particular order) of wonderful trips for the New Year. 1. The Zambezi: Big, fluffy and FUN: Far from being the scary massive river you see on Youtube videos, a trip on the […]
Just What Makes A Good Guide, Great?
Hamish McMaster
The essence to a great river trip are the guides who accompany you on your adventure. Many times guides are asked, “so, what’s your real job”? Many have chosen to make guiding a career, where their skills always involves wonderful river guiding skills, it is what lies beneath these fascinating characters, that makes them special. […]
Zambezi Highlights As Rated By You – Our Guests
Hamish McMaster
We can write as much as we like about just how special Zambezi rafting trips are, but the only opinion that matters is that of you, our guests. Based on our feedback from surveys conducted this year, the favourite aspects of their Zambezi Rafting Holidays are (in no particular order) 1. Wine and Cheese Night […]
Rafting The Rio Cotahuasi – The World’s Deepest Canyon – Peru
Hamish McMaster
If you are like many of our guests, looking for the next adventure challenge, we can highly recommend a trip to raft the world’s deepest canyon (well okay, it shares that honour jointly with the Colca) with an adventure vacation down the Rio Cotahuasi in Peru. This river offers technical and challenging whitewater as well […]
Rio Futaleufu – Whitewater Rafting & “Glamping” At Its Best
Hamish McMaster
With the onset of autumn in full swing, many of us look for a break from the long hard winter with an adventure in warmer climates in the Southern Hemisphere. Embarking on a trip to Chile and Argentina on the Rio Futaleufu (pronounced foo-tah-lay-oh-foo) must just be your thing, especially if you love your home […]
California – All We Expected & SO Much More.
Hamish McMaster
California is a state renowned for it’s excellent whitewater rafting, draining from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We entered into the trip a little unsure of which rivers we were going to run, given an unseasonably poor snow pack and general lack of water this winter. No need to worry. We sampled some of the classics […]
Zambezi River Rapids For Beginners
Hamish McMaster
With so many rapids and misconceptions about the Zambezi River and their size, we hope this run down may allay some of your fears and give you the encouragement required to run the worlds greatest river. When the pioneering run was done in 1980 by Sobek, what a sense of adventure dawned on these amazing […]
Five Pieces Of Essential Gear For Your Rafting Holiday
Hamish McMaster
We all love our home comforts when we travel. No matter whether you are heading off with your family for a rafting adventure to Morocco, or you are some friends off to challenge the Zambezi River, here are a few of our suggestions to make that trip a little more comfortable and rewarding. 1. Go […]
Adventure Travel Show – Chat About Rafting
Hamish McMaster
With the new year upon us, it is the time to start planning your 2014 adventure. If doing a white water rafting trip is on your bucket list, it may well be worth coming and chatting to the team at the Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show in London on the 25th and 26th January at […]