Wild water Rafting on the Nile !

"Guys, get the f::ck down!"

That's the sound of our Canadian raftinguide on the Wild water rafting on the River Nile, while we where taking a class 6 raft () . All rafts around the world have the classification from 1-5, and in some rare cases a class 6. Class 2 is the highest in for example Scandinavia, where there's no danger and no high waves. When you get close to a class 5 raft, there's high risk of injuries, through hitting rocks on the bottom of the river. A class 6 is the equvivalent to HIGH risk of injuries and some cases even death.

We took of from Kampala to Jinji (Source of the Nile), and got to Jinja at 9:00, we came home at 19:00, pretty shaken up and scared shitless after that the last raft sucked me inside of a Whirlpool (Strommvirvel in Swedish). It held me down in its grip for some 7-8 seconds, in that time your whole life passes by you an X amount of times. When I reached the surface, I was kind of panicing becuase I thought I was gonna hit some rock formations on the side of the Class 6 raft, instead I got sucked down again by the current for some more seconds. When I popped up one of the 12 Kayakrescue dudes picked me up. I tried to look for Tobias but he was gone!

Taking a class 5 raft is once in a lifetime experience, a class 6 raft is just like playing with death!

During the 8 hours long raftsession, we hadent flipped over once, like the rest of the 8 raftingboats. But we flipped on the worse raft of the enitre contintent! We came into the so called 50-50 raft (which means that there\s a 50% chance of not flipping over) we made it through that one and then continued into "The Bad Place", which is highly dangerous for any kayaks or rafters, when it comes to injuries. Anyway, we took the powerful current and came ontop of this 5 meter high wave, and got SUCKED back into the strong current, that's the moment when tobias said "Man, you got sucked into the Bad Place in 0.5 seconds!!"

Tobias who was left on the raft, with two other people who was as scared, and with fear in their eyes, was actually surfing the Bad Place for 20 seconds, becuase the raft was stuck between a class 6 raft and a strong current. Tobias had no choice then to jump inside it and getting sucked up and transported some 70 meters downstreams. He then got picked up by the rescuekayaks.

I can honestly say that I've never been as scared, and close to shit my pants and never seen people with that kind of fear of nature before, you're really helpless and powerless ! I saw my life ending underneeth the powerfull current.

A simple class 2 raft....

I can understand why people to this, the adrenalinekick and the rush you get afterwords is incomparable to anything I've ever done in my enitre life!