Uganda
Rafting the Victoria Nile
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Price |
Accommodations |
Bio Bio Expeditions
800-246-7238, www.bbx
rafting.com |
$1,615 |
camping, rustic lodging |
Rove African Safaris
011-27-11-453-2790, rapid
ttp.com/
travel/br/
zroveafr.html |
$2,050 |
camping, rustic lodging |
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The Route: A two-week, 65-mile expedition down the Class IV and V rapids of one of the world’s most romanticized rivers. You’ll raft from Lake Victoria to the thundering basalt fissure of Murchison Falls.
When to go: June-July, December-February
Difficulty: Difficult
Travel advisory: Start practicing your breath-holding skills. Most rafters swim an average of 1.8 times on the first day alone, and the huge hydraulics 鈥 150,000 to 200,000 cubic feet per second 鈥 can hold you underwater for as long as 30 seconds.
High/low points:
- Seeing firsthand the source of the Nile, the grail that eluded great explorers such as David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.
- Lugging your rafts and gear along a narrow, tunnel-like hippo trail on the brutal two-day portage around Annihilator rapid.
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