Pacuare Tours

Sheer rock faces rise above you, dense emerald jungle sheltering jaguars, monkeys, sloths and brightly-coloured parrots lie ahead, and you’re about to gush through it all in a rubber dinghy with half a dozen delirious mates for company. You had better pray you and your boat mates don’t get chucked into the rapids at the first turn – you never know what might be in the water. The Pacuare on Costa Rica’s Atlantic coast, bordering the Talamanca mountains, was rated one of the five best rafting rivers in the world by Discovery Channel, and it’s the greatest tropical rafting river of all.