“Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world … an empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest,” wrote Joseph Conrad in classic novella “Heart of ...

I lose my balance and squawk, falling into the inflatable boat like a distressed manatee. Composing my flailing limbs, I look up at the waves ahead: they resemble a giant washing machine, swishing and ...

A: Unfortunately, Mountain Travel-Sobek is the only outfitter I spoke to that runs regularly scheduled, multiday group rafting trips down the Zambezi. Their nine-day river expedition starts at a ...