Location: Jinja, Uganda Duration: 3 days Availability: Year round Cost: from $500 Requirements: reasonable level of fitness, basic swimming ability What’s included: Ugandan visa, meals, accommodation, all rafting equipment, experienced river guides, transportation to and from Jinja, Uganda.

More than four thousand miles in length, the Nile is the longest river on the planet. There is a definite mystique attached to the river; there’s something about knowing that the water flowing past your feet will continue to flow through the deserts of Sudan, past the Valley of the Kings and through Cairo before flowing into the Mediterranean. The Nile is relatively new territory for adventure-seeking rafters, with a first descent in 1996 by an American of questionable sanity. The section of Nile you will be rafting on includes a 55-mile stretch that drops one continuous Class IV-V rapid after the next for 800 feet. Up to seven times the volume of the Zambezi thunders between heavily forested islands, creating massive rapids. You will take one several mountainous class V rapids, many of which expert rafters agree the most technical and sustained to be found anywhere. After surviving the rapids, rafters will drift lazily through large pools in the hot equatorial sunshine, until the next big drop that is!