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Multi day rafting trips:
During the Low Water season, an overnight and 2 day trip to the Batoka Dam site is on offer (approximately 56 kms down stream from the Victoria Falls).
Overnight trip - Clients will overnight at our camp, which is situated above rapid number 23. Tents, bedrolls and sleeping bags will be provided by Safari Par Excellence. All meals and soft drinks are complimentary. Clients must arrange and pay for preferred alcoholic beverages before departure. Safari Par Excellence supplies beers (Castle), red & white wine and gin & tonic. Clients are transferred back to the Safari Par Excellence office the next morning at 10am. The drive from the gorge is approximately 40km long.
Two-day trip - Clients run the usual one-day section of the river to our overnight camp below/at rapid No 23 where they spend the first night. The following day they continue down from No 23 to the proposed Batoka Gorge Dam Site, approximately 56kms from Victoria Falls. Clients will be confronted with rapids known as Open season, the narrows, Chimamba, upper and lower Moemba and finally exiting above the proposed dam site. The second night is spent at the top of the gorge overlooking the stunning hills and valleys that form the Batoka gorge. The clients will then be transferred back to Victoria Falls the following morning.
Tailor-made multi-day rafting trips are available on request during the Low Water season.
Food and Drink:
On overnights we supply dinner and a full cooked breakfast.
On the 2.5 day trips we supply all meals. The camps are stocked with beers, wines, soft drinks and gin & tonics. Clients must bring their own spirits if they wish.
Departure Times and Meeting Places:
All trips leave from Zimbabwe.
We have set departure dates for our 2.5 day trips. These are available on request.
We will however do a trip on any day for a guaranteed booking of 4 of more pax. Over nights can be done on any day.
Group size required to book a multi-day rafting trip:
Overnight Min Pax 2 Max Pax 20
2.5 day trip Min Pax 4 Max Pax 20
5 Day Rafting Expeditions:
Day one: Full day of rafting as usual one day low water rafting trip and camping below rapid 23, overnight camp.
Day two: From hereafter the flat stretches between rapids becomes longer. Your first rapid is 'Open Season'. We then continue through 'The Narrows' and 'Chimamba', where we stop for lunch. After lunch we head on down the river to our overnight campsite just beyond upper Mowemba.
Day three: After portaging lower Mowemba we continue along to the Dam site where we do our third and final portage. After this we move on to our campsite located downstream on a beach in the gorge.
Day four: Continue down stream to Ghost rider then deep throat where we ghost the rafts through while having lunch. Raft through another section of narrows with short sharp drops, very exciting. We then conclude the day with "asleep at the wheel" which is the last major rapid of the trip. Camp downstream of asleep at the wheel.
Day five: We continue on navigating through 'Asleep at the Wheel', 'Fish Eagle's Delight' and on to our take out point at Matetsi where we are transported back to the Falls. The transfer is a 3 hour drive along the road from Hwange to Milibizi
The trip includes:
All meals and soft drinks (small amount of beers, gin & tonics, however due to the longevity of the trip these are not bottomless supplies. Should clients have a preferred alcohol, they must supply this themselves)
Guide
All rafting equipment
Sleeping bags
First aid kit
Group size required to book a multi-day rafting trip: 5 day trip Min Pax 4 Max Pax 20
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