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 Day
1
Depart UK for
flight to Johannesburg.
Day 2
Arrive into
Johannesburg where you will be met and escorted to Livingstone, Zambia, and then
to your hotel.
The remainder of
the afternoon is free for you to acclimatise after your journey.
In the evening
there will be a pre-trip meeting where some equipment will be handed to
participants and details of the next 4 days given.
Later on, you will
travel by boat to the upper river, to watch the sunset behind vulture-clad
Baobab trees. This trip also offers the possibility of seeing elephants, hippos
and buffalo at close range.
Day 3
After breakfast
(9.00 a.m.), you will head to the base of Victoria Falls for the start of your
challenge.
There is quite a demanding trek down to the ‘put in’ point (approx 2km) and participants will be expected help carry some of the rafting gear down.
There will be a
full safety briefing before embarking on the first section of river.
The first rapid
‘Morning Glory’ is one of the biggest commercially-run rapids in the World.
‘Stairway to Heaven’, ‘The Devil’s Toilet Bowl’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ follow.
Then arrive at
‘Midnight Diner’, featuring one of the biggest waves ever seen on a river.
You then carry your
rafts around ‘Commercial Suicide’ – an impossible rapid to navigate for any but
the best kayakers!
‘The Gnashing Jaws
of Death’ provides a suitable white-water finale before floating into camp to
spend the evening relaxing and watching the sun disappear for your first night
under the stars.
Day 4
After breakfast,
all the equipment is loaded into the rafts.
Our first rapid
today is ‘Creamy White Buttocks’, followed by ‘The Mother’! Later on, you will
experience one of the most thrilling rapids on the whole trip – ‘Oblivion’ with
wave after wave of white water hitting the rafts! A little further down is your
next camp site.
Day 5
‘Morning Shower’
wakes you up in the fashion you are becoming accustomed to! The river begins to
open out a bit more, but this doesn’t mean the rapids become smaller.
One of the more
technical and exhilarating rapids you will conquer today is ‘Open Season’.
After lunch there
will be ‘Chamamba’ and the amazing finale to the day, ‘Upper Moemba’.
Day 6
This morning, the
rafts are carried over the unrunnable ‘Lower Moemba’ and you then drift
downstream for an hour to see the proposed site for the joint Zambia/Zimbabwe
power project.
At Chabango Falls,
everything is removed from the rafts and after lunch, the empty rafts are
carried around the Falls before being re-launched into the water and then on
towards ‘Ghostrider’.
‘Ghostrider’ is the
longest of all the rapids and is the final stretch of your Challenge.
You will be
collected by helicopter and transported back to Livingstone, Zambia. The flight
will take you beneath the gorge rim and back past the rapids travelled over the
past few days. You will fly out of the gorge amidst stunning views of the
African landscape, before flying over Victoria Falls.
At the hotel will
be the chance of a welcome shower before the Presentation Dinner that evening.
Day 7
Mid-morning,
transfer to Livingstone Airport for the flight back to the UK.
Day 8
Arrive UK.
*Please note that whilst we make
every effort to adhere to this schedule and the accommodation stated, this is
subject to alteration.
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