Whitewater rafting on the Nile
May. 16th, 2012 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debbieannI went rafting on the Nile - and it is crazy wild HUGE rapids. I think I did not understand how hard it was going to be. I'm still bruised and sunburned and my neck hurts. class 5 rapids! We went with Nalubale Rafting Uganda - if you go to the facebk page they have a photo of Charles about to get hit by lots of water:
https://www.facebook.com/Nalubale
On the very first rapid our raft flipped over and we all went for a swim in the river. This part of the Nile has only been rafted since 1996, there are only 3 companies rafting it. It is dam released water and when we went it was pretty low. the drops were sometimes as long as our raft. It was wild. They even let people take boogie boards through the rapids. It was a full day on the river and I really enjoyed the parts where I wasn't being dumped in the water. I swallowed a lot more of the Nile that I wanted to. but - still - it was fun. Wish my Dad were with me! they had cute small plastic kayaks. There were 6 customers, 2 guides in our raft, an oar boat w our lunch, and 5 small kayakers to rescue us or the paddles. I think this part of the Nile is called the White Nile or the Victoria Nile. also Source of the Nile.
Here is one of the shorter youtube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx6DLqkduPw
I was certainly the least physically fit person in our raft, but the guides got me through it. I never could tell what happened when we ended up in the river - it happened so fast.
https://www.facebook.com/Nalubale
On the very first rapid our raft flipped over and we all went for a swim in the river. This part of the Nile has only been rafted since 1996, there are only 3 companies rafting it. It is dam released water and when we went it was pretty low. the drops were sometimes as long as our raft. It was wild. They even let people take boogie boards through the rapids. It was a full day on the river and I really enjoyed the parts where I wasn't being dumped in the water. I swallowed a lot more of the Nile that I wanted to. but - still - it was fun. Wish my Dad were with me! they had cute small plastic kayaks. There were 6 customers, 2 guides in our raft, an oar boat w our lunch, and 5 small kayakers to rescue us or the paddles. I think this part of the Nile is called the White Nile or the Victoria Nile. also Source of the Nile.
Here is one of the shorter youtube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx6DLqkduPw
I was certainly the least physically fit person in our raft, but the guides got me through it. I never could tell what happened when we ended up in the river - it happened so fast.
