Last week I promised a whitewater rafting video, so hold on to your seat and enjoy the buzz with this video from Ryan (BMCPro) of the Glacier Raft crew guiding rafts down Canada's Kicking Horse river.
For the first time, a river yacht route, Dvortsovy Kruiz (Palace Cruise), has been opened, connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg via the Volga-Baltic waterway, The route will be operating on a trial basis through July 12 as part of the Annual Yacht Festival.
St. Petersburg is already a popular cruise destination but foreign cruise boats are currently barred from sailing Russian waters, although plans are underway to change this. Read more about this in the St. Petersburg Times.
Enjoy this trip along a small section of the Austrian/German Danube brought to us by tnsilnl. Beautiful images accompanied by the Blue Danube from Strauss.
Having posted the occasional article here, tracing the river Danube from its source in Germany to the Black Sea, it was nice to learn that a team of Kayakers, twin sisters Chrissy and Eve Conyers, with their friends Wayne and Josh, are setting out on June 26 from Regensburg, Germany, to paddle about 2500 km to the Romanian estuary.
The group are using the trip to raise money for the children of CanTeen, who have grown up living with cancer. The girls have been members of CanTeen throughout their childhood because their brother, Adrian has been battling with a brain tumor. CanTeen is an Australian support organisation for young people (aged 12-24) that are living with the disruption of cancer; this includes ot only the cancer patients themselves, but their brothers and sisters and also young people with parents or primary carers with cancer.
German football fans are now heading to Vienna for the Euro 2008 final, so they have chosen a particularly exciting time for their adventure. Let's wish Team Kayak luck and if you are able to support them with a sposorship donation, go to Eveyday Hero, where you will be able to make a donation and enable them to 'Raise More Than a Sweat for CanTeen'.
A scientific expedition to Peru claims to have established a new source for the Amazon, located in southern Peru at an altitude of 5,000m, on an ice-covered mountain called Mismi. It means that the Amazon is 6,800km (4,250 miles) long, which compared to the length of the Nile, 6,695km (4,184 miles), makes the Amazon the World's longest river.
The research was co-ordinated by the National Geographical Institute of Peru, with the help of colleagues at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in Brazil.
Martin Strel, from Slovenia, recently completed a swim of the entire length of the Amazon, starting at its previously documented source in Atalaya, Peru.
