Rafting Uganda's White Nile

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Rafting Uganda's White Nile

Outside Editors' Choice

By: Kyle Dickman

Silverback rapid on the Nile (Photograph by David O'Hare)

Bujagali Falls, near where the Nile drains Lake Victoria, is the most accessible extreme whitewater in Africa—which is to say it's the best whitewater in the world. The White Nile beats the Zambezi's six-month season (it's open year-round) and the Colorado's dam-controlled volume (the average flow is seven times bigger). Float it on a two-day trip, during which you'll take on freight-car-size holes and nine Class V rapids. Nile River Explorers, the area's veteran rafting company, offers a two-day, 34-mile trip from the put-in below Lake Victoria to the take-out at Hairy Lemon Island. It's split up with a night in safari-style tents at a riverside camp. Book now: Next year, Uganda hopes to finish building a 90-foot dam below Bujagali, which would swamp some of the biggest rapids. $250, including a night for two in a safari tent; raftafrica.com

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Arjan
08/08/10 4:0:AM

Adrift Adventure Co. (www.adrift.ug) are the original and most popular rafting company on the Nile. In 1996 they made the first-ever descent of the Nile in Uganda and about the same time featured in Outside Magazine with their Coruh River trip in Turkey. They are well worth checking out based on their 30-year history and incredible safety record. They have recently won a bid to offer, for the first time, rafting safaris through Murchison Falls National Park in Northern Uganda.

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