A: Unfortunately, Mountain Travel-Sobek is the only outfitter I spoke to that runs regularly scheduled, multiday group rafting trips down the Zambezi. Their nine-day river expedition starts at a ...

I lose my balance and squawk, falling into the inflatable boat like a distressed manatee. Composing my flailing limbs, I look up at the waves ahead: they resemble a giant washing machine, swishing and ...

Adventure Adviser: According to my expert source at a company that devotes itself entirely to adventure travel in Africa, the best month to raft the Zambezi is August. The weather at this time of the ...

As summer ends in North America, and the recreational river are reduced to a trickle and rafting enthusiasts begin — reluctantly — to turn toward winter pursuits, a few river runners get smart. They ...

“Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world … an empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest,” wrote Joseph Conrad in classic novella “Heart of ...

Mongo Reeder can get a little anxious when he hears the rumble of whitewater. Chances are, though, he’s floating on something like the Zambezi River in Africa. The raging Zambezi is about 40 times ...