On one of the days in Costa Rica, we went white water river rafting on the Savegre River. Our tour was conducted by the Amigos Del Rio group. We chose the full day adventure down the Class 3 rapids of the Savegre River. The adventure started with a bus ride to a way point about an hour outside of Manuael Antonio. From there, we climbed into a 4 wheel drive hum-vee type vehicle for another hour drive deep into the rainforest.
Here are some pictures from the adventure.
We started off slowly and then hit some major rapids. It definitely looks scarier than it felt at the time.
They referred to this section of the river as La Boca del Diablo or the Devil’s Mouth.
There was also another section of the river we got to “surf a hole” – a technique where you are paddling upstream against the flow of the river and keeping up – too cool to describe.
We were fortunate to have a great tour operator and boatman (Ramirez) leading our raft. Only a few of us fell out of the boat and were quickly rescued! This was an amazing and thoroughly enjoyable day on the river.
After the race, I took the kids to the Angels dugout for a group picture.
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