Let's take the fun route!

Rio Pacuare was not the most adrenaline filled rafting trip we’ve ever done, that title goes to the Nile in Uganda, but I think it was the prettiest.  We had a brilliant guide for our trip, who was quite dismissive of some of the other guide’s skill levels.  He took a lot of pleasure in being one of the few guides not to get stuck on the rocks in places where the water was very shallow.  He also tried to up the adrenaline as much as possible, much to the frustration of one of the other people in our boat, Adele.  Every time he would explain there were two routes, the easy one, and the "more fun" one she voted for the easy, and the guide took us the more fun route.  On the biggest rapid of the day she choose to move to a boat taking the easier route, whilst we went through the biggest section backwards! Jason fell out of the raft at this point, and the guide grabbed on to me or I would have followed.  After lunch he then gave us all a siesta, taking our paddles whilst we sat inside the raft using the seats as pillows.  We think this was partly to tease one of the guides who was frantically trying to get his boat to paddle forward, then backward, then stop, then forward.  Whilst we lazed in the sun and our guide made it look easy.  When we did hit the next rapid it was a bit of a shock as we didn’t see it coming and all of a sudden we were all knocked over to the side. All the while we made our way through beautiful rainforest and canyons, to the sound of monkeys and toucans.  Not a bad way to spend a day!