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RAFTING AND KAYAKING THE
ORANGE - PICTURES
HALF-DAY ORANGE
RIVER RUNS
From our base at Kalahari
Cliffs: NEUS & RUSH
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Easy and spectacular
Only a few km from Kakamas, this
grade2-3 run takes a few well-spent hours. We often do it as a
preparation for longer trails on the Orange, since the rendezvous
for all trips is
Kalahari Cliffs, our base camp, and
Neus is only just upriver. So come a day or two in advance if you
are planning a longer raft safari
with us. We drive from the campsite and put in below the virtually
unknown but wildly thundering Neus Falls. Then it's a great
float trip with a couple of good rapids to spice things up as we
descend to our landing back at KalCliffs. Here's a shot of the
entering chute at Corkscrew
rapid:
Few river trips in Southern
Africa start at a more spectacular spot than the 8km Neus Gorge run.
The wild cataract of Neus is seen here:
Naturally, we don't attempt to
run this but Andrew Kellett of
Gravity Adventures and friends did so a few years ago in their
kayaks (see pix in gallery below). There is a terrifying "chicken
run" around river left - some chicken, some run, as Churchill might
have said.
The above shot was taken at
medium low water level. But some friends ran it at high level:
We don't run the major rapid -
unless you have a particular passion for danger. Rafts can penetrate the lower end of the Neus Falls rapids, then we turn downstream and float into the Neus
Gorge itself. Low but impressive, the sun-blackened rocks
stand at angles, their layered strata shattered by countless floods.
After several good rapids it's downhill all the
way to our pull-out. Allow 3-4 hours for this
marvellously scenic trip.
Neus Gorge Gallery
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