{"product_id":"shearwater-victoria-falls-white-water-rafting-experience","title":"Shearwater Victoria Falls White Water Rafting Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eBelow Victoria Falls, the Zambezi River — one thousand seven hundred metres wide at the falls — drops one hundred and twenty metres and is squeezed into a basalt gorge only forty metres wide at its narrowest. The result is a seventy-kilometre run of high-volume Grade 5 rapids through the Batoka Gorge, and Shearwater has been taking rafts through it since 1985, when they ran the first commercial white water trips on this stretch of the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe day is spent on the water. You put in below the falls and work through a succession of named rapids, each shaped by the basalt walls pressing the Zambezi into channels it cannot comfortably fill. The water is warm. The gorge is deep. Guides who know the river across seasons read each rapid before committing the raft, adjusting the line to the day's water level, which changes with the season and the volume coming over the falls above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe full-day format means you run the most significant rapids on the accessible section of the gorge rather than a sampler stretch. You will swim at some point — most people do — and the guides retrieve swimmers as part of the standard routine. Minimum age and fitness requirements apply; confirm these with Shearwater before booking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43805436313659,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/4741017531038060061b8a5366jpg_28cad4ba-16b0-402c-92a0-19a54908a01d.webp?v=1784324058","url":"https:\/\/plekify.com\/products\/shearwater-victoria-falls-white-water-rafting-experience","provider":"Plekify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}