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Batoka Gorge White Water Rafting Below Victoria Falls

Raft through the world's best one-day white water experience in the Batoka Gorge — 23 rapids including the legendary Commercial Suicide

1
Gorge Rim Briefing
Safety briefing and fitting of equipment at the edge of the gorge before the steep descent down to the insertion point on the Zambezi River
2
Morning Glory Opens Rapid
The first rapids lighten the rafters in the rhythm of the gorge — a long train of waves under high 80-meter black basalt cliffs dripping with ferns
3
Commercial Suicide Rapid 9
The most notorious rapids on the Zambezi — a roaring class-5 maelstrom that flips practically every raft and makes everyone grin
4
Riverside Lunch Beach
A lunch break on the sandy beach halfway through the gorge where vervet monkeys investigate unattended food bags with agile confidence
5
Oblivion Rapid 18
The penultimate monster rapids where the entire river flows through a narrow gap — the most technically demanding water on the course
6
Gorge Climb-Out at Sunset
The steep 200m rope-supported climb up the canyon wall, exhausted but exhilarated, arriving just as the sun sets over the falls