White Water Rafting in Jinja

I am still alive!!!!

Saturday I went White Water Rafting on the Nile. The company we went with was www.adrift.ug and they are based in Jinja. Everything was really well organized and the service was excellent.

I was really excited about this trip and at the beginning it seemed to be a real, a total fun thing. You know me, I had to go with the wild team, we actually all went wild. The first raft was pretty fine but the 2nd one, the one called "Big Brother" almost killed me. Our guide Josh told us later that we were far from dying but for the first time in live I really thought that I wouldn't see the sunrise of the following day. Our boat flipped and I tried to hold on to the boat as I was told to but a strong current underneath the surface just pulled me down. It was like on a roller coaster and I felt that I was running out of air. I know that I didn't panic, because I told myself to control my breath and I lifted my arm to see if I am close to the surface, what wasn't the case. It was dark above me and I thought that may be the boat, what would have been a good thing because our guide showed us before that underneath the boat there is space to breath. Well it was NOT the boat, actually it was just dark. We were also told to hold up our legs in front of us, I was wondering how the hell I should manage this when I was thrown around like a piece of cloth in a washing machine. Finally I made it up, but not really long enough to get air, my god, will this ever end? I made it up again and I took a deep breath and swallowed a lot of Nile water.

You see, it ended fine. Jo 2, the girl which did just sit in front of me experienced the same thing. The rest of the trip was more or less a torture for us, but I guess we were both to proud to get on the safety boat or to go back to the camp. We flipped a second time but we had asked before how long we risk to stay under water, if ever we would flip. I don't have any injury while Jo 2 also hit her feet against some rocks. You should have seen her.

Well, we cried a lot and I can really say: NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

Uganda: Jinja