Serious Fun Riversurfing
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Serious Fun Riversurfing
The ultimate pro-active adventure activity! Whitewater bodyboarding down the mighty Kawarau River with the pioneers of riversurfing.
Join a small personalised group and swim down an aqua green river amidst some of New Zealand’s most enchanting scenery. Harness the immense gravity fed power of the Kawarau River as you navigate through the roaring rapids. Experienced and fully qualified guides will demonstrate how to surf standing waves, “squirt” (flying underwater), barrel roll, ride whirlpools, rock jump and heaps more.
The infamous Chinese Dogleg section contains a series of grade 2 to 4 rapids over 8 km, and includes New Zealand’s longest commercially run rapid, 800m of grade 4 whitewater! Some of the best surf spots are found here plus a swim through ‘pillars of the Kings’ from Lord of The Rings.
‘Roaring Megs’ is the high water section. A 6km section of continuous fast flowing grade2-3 whitewater! This section has lots of powerful waves, whirlpools and big rapids such as ‘Maneater’. Once is never enough so we run this section twice in a half day trip.
All trips start in calm water with an introduction to the equipment and instruction on basic riversurfing techniques.
Trip capacity is 50 people divided into groups of up to 10 on the river. The trips depart twice daily (9am + 2pm) or on demand. All equipment supplied, just bring a towel swim suit and a sense of adventure! The minimum age is 8 years old, with an extra guide to assist under 12 year olds.
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River surfing.
saraswitzer -
Beats river rafting hands down.
Con -
The best activity I ever done.
Sue Smith -
A lot of fun!
Sabine Tippman
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The best activity I ever done.
Really unique.
Surfing a wave in the river is really cool and different of surfing in the ocean.
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This is the best activity that I have tried in New Zealand.
Good equipment, friendly guides and twice down the River. Great fun!
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We are mom and dad traveling with three boys - 15, 13 and 10.
The guides were incredible - it's just so much more to do an activity when the guides are clearly happy and loving what they are doing. Our 10yo had his own guide assigned to him that stayed with him the whole time. This is the only river surfing company that will take anyone below 12 (that we could find anyway). It was good he had his own guide, but he would have definitely struggled by himself and it would have made it a very different experience for mom and dad trying to help him.
The surfing itself was physically challenging at times to stay where you needed to be in the current, not flipping as you are going through rapids. The first time down you learn the basics and how to control your rafting. The second time down, the guides teach you how to do fun tricks like squirting (shoving your board underwater in certain spots and getting sucked under) and tornado (making yourself spin in circles going through rapids).
I was worried about being cold, but the wetsuit kept me warm. The helmet and lifejacket provided a level of satety with which I was comfortable. The guides were extrememely good at what they did, and helped you out when you started to drift off from where you needed to be and were struggling to get back in.
Definitely a great adventure activity - where else in the world can you boogie board down a river safely?
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Beats river rafting hands down.
You should definitely try it plus the guides are really nice and take care of you.
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Dull, dull, dull.
And expensive too at nearly $NZD 200. Very tame float down a river with tiny rapids that don't trigger any adrenaline thrill at all. One cliff jump, again pretty tame. You'll get a bigger kick boogie boarding off the beach at home. Equipment good, nice scenery, "snacks provided" means a plastic cup of weak squash and a small muesli bar. Our group was too big, with too many people who weren't competent swimmers who were basically towed down the river by the guides meaning they weren't there to guide you into any fun stuff like the squirts. The video & website promises a lot, but save your money and do something else as the experience doesn't deliver a fraction of what it claims to.
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Dull, dull, dull.
And expensive too at nearly $NZD 200. Very tame float down a river with tiny rapids that don't trigger any adrenaline thrill at all. One cliff jump, again pretty tame. You'll get a bigger kick boogie boarding off the beach at home. Equipment good, nice scenery, "snacks provided" means a plastic cup of weak squash and a small muesli bar. Our group was too big, with too many people who weren't competent swimmers who were basically towed down the river by the guides meaning they weren't there to guide you into any fun stuff like the squirts. The video & website promises a lot, but save your money and do something else as the experience doesn't deliver a fraction of what it claims to.
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We are mom and dad traveling with three boys - 15, 13 and 10.
The guides were incredible - it's just so much more to do an activity when the guides are clearly happy and loving what they are doing. Our 10yo had his own guide assigned to him that stayed with him the whole time. This is the only river surfing company that will take anyone below 12 (that we could find anyway). It was good he had his own guide, but he would have definitely struggled by himself and it would have made it a very different experience for mom and dad trying to help him.
The surfing itself was physically challenging at times to stay where you needed to be in the current, not flipping as you are going through rapids. The first time down you learn the basics and how to control your rafting. The second time down, the guides teach you how to do fun tricks like squirting (shoving your board underwater in certain spots and getting sucked under) and tornado (making yourself spin in circles going through rapids).
I was worried about being cold, but the wetsuit kept me warm. The helmet and lifejacket provided a level of satety with which I was comfortable. The guides were extrememely good at what they did, and helped you out when you started to drift off from where you needed to be and were struggling to get back in.
Definitely a great adventure activity - where else in the world can you boogie board down a river safely?
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This is the best activity that I have tried in New Zealand.
Good equipment, friendly guides and twice down the River. Great fun!
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Its expensive in view to the trip.
Staff friendly. Activity original, uncommon but not very adrenalin making. There is not very much 'surf', it's just a swim.
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The best activity I ever done.
Really unique.
Surfing a wave in the river is really cool and different of surfing in the ocean.
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Beats river rafting hands down.
You should definitely try it plus the guides are really nice and take care of you.
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