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 […]
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 […]
Local Cuisine – Give It A Try!
Hamish McMaster
Traveling gives us a wonderful opportunity to experience new rivers, new cultures and new foods. One of the parts we enjoy so much about doing such a vast array or destinations is the variety of excellent local food on offer. Many people have anxiety about trying local food due to worries about hygiene and potential […]
California Dreamin’ – Spring Run Off, Rafting At It’s Best
Hamish McMaster
We are always in the pursuit of finding the greatest river trips in the world to fuel our passion for wonderful whitewater and the good news is, we have found yet another amazing destination. But rather than just running one river, you’ll get to run 5 rivers in a week on our California Dreamin’ trip. […]
Nepal White Water Rafting – Nirvana?
Hamish McMaster
With the holiday season approaching, many of us are looking for that unique destination for our 2014 adventure holiday. If you are an avid white water lover, or even a first time rafter, then Nepal as a destination for an adventure is well worth considering. Nepal is refreshing, vibrant, stunning and full of great adventures. […]
Is The Zambezi River The Perfect Digital Detox Trip?
Hamish McMaster
In our ever increasingly fast paced lives, switching off and relaxing once in while is not such a bad thing. And switching off, we don’t just mean getting away on an adventure holiday once a year. Turning off your tablets and i phones and actually sitting down and chatting to people about all the common […]