Rafting tours

Do you like rafting? Contact us!

The team at kajakshop.hu provides adventurous paddling trips on diverse white waters. We've been doing since 1999 rafting tours. Before that we have been doing for 10 years canoe trip.
First we worked in Slovakia on the Béla and Vág rivers, then came the Austrian Salza river in Wildalpen/Palfau, and finally the most famous, the Slovenian Soca river.

From 2001 to 2012, we worked on the Soca river, paddleing the non-public parts as well, then we stopped. Everyone could offer a bit of the same thing, we wanted something unique rafting . Of course, it's for beginners and safe, but it offers something that only our team does.

The other goal was to keep our dear old clients. After 4-5 tours, it was difficult to show them something unique, on the Salza or the Soca river again.

In short, since 2012 our new base has been in Bad Gastein, Austria.
This is one of Austria's most unique alpine towns, Goethe, Johann Strauss, Sissi, Franz József's favorite resort, and by the way, one of Austria's best ski resorts, BAD GASTEIN.

We work here on three whitewater rivers: Saalbach, Salzach, Lieser.

Wonderful, active whitewaters, each with a different face.

We wanted to structure the rafting tour a little differently than before.

1. We go to a different river every day.
2. Not only the usual TREK(rubber canoe) and large rafts for 6-8 people, it is possible to get into the water.
   In the USA and in France, you can also try one or two-person rubber kayaks, which are much more popular, which our participants tend to enjoy much more than traditional treks, and they are also safer.
   Instead of a large raft (6/8-person cabin), we use mini-rafts, which are just as stable, but only 3 meters long, and because of this you can enjoy and feel the whitewater waves much better.
   Our white water SITONTOP it is organized for committed beginners, it is a real plastic whitewater kayak with an open top, for beginners, no Eskimo roll knowledge is needed here. Even Austrian companies don't have such a boat.
3. We don't just do two-day tours. The 3-day ones are much better.
   For the extra day, we put together a sea kayak rental, you can try the sea kayak in an eye of the sea: on the world-famous lake of Zell Am See.
   We also put together a mountain bike rental for 16 people, so we usually pack a mountain bike tour with waterfall viewing and trout eating along with the rafting, for one day.
4. We only accept one group of up to 16 participants.

The Saalbach is for teams with children and families, difficulty level 2-3, average depth 1 meter.
The Salzach is Central Austria's best-known rafting river, difficulty level 3.

Its specialty is its 5 20-meter-long slides with a huge difference in level.
There is nothing like it anywhere else.

The Lieser is our favorite whitewater, it is rocky, swirling, and what is its great value, it has 3 times more rapid than the famous Soca river. However, it is safer, there are no undercuts. And it's full of terraces.
By the way, the Lieser is also the favorite river of the year-end Festival of Hungarian WhiteWater Kayakers. This year, the whitewater part of the famous Dolomiten Man race will also be held here.

As an added bonus at the end of the tour, the more adept people will be taken into a one-and-a-half kilometer long river canyon with a strength of 4+. There is no such opportunity on any other river. But this is only an optional option.

The accommodation and base is located 570 km from Budapest. Address Bad Gastein/Böckstein Goldbergstrasse 11.

Ferenc József's gold mine was here. The rivers are still full of golden glitter.

Recommended route: Hegyeshalom, Eisenstadt, s6 then A9 towards Salzburg, then Liezen, schladming, Bischofshofen, gasteinertal, Bad gastein.

Billa and Spar are 3 minutes away from our accommodation, and the famous Bad Gastein Thermal/Wellness spa is also 3 minutes away by car.

The rooms are for 2 or 3 people. The accommodation is apartment-like, with a large kitchen for every two rooms.

Arrival: in the case of a 2-day program, Friday evening or Saturday morning until 9, for a 3-day program, Thursday evening or Friday morning until ten.
The programs cover about 12 km of paddleing per day, which we finish at 5-6 pm, and on Sundays at 3 pm.
The programs include all clothing and protective equipment, even with a different type of boat every day.

If someone takes the organization into their own hands, every 10th place is free for them.

We can help a few people on trips with our own 9-person minibus.
What do you need to bring for rafting? A towel and something for breakfast if you don't want to go to ABC in the morning.

Why is rafting good?

Many people come because it is "extreme"
It's not extreme, it's not true, it's just an unusual life situation in a good way.
It's a good test to observe yourself. But you don't have to come for the sake of ticking off.
BUT because it is BEAUTIFUL!
We cannot paddle in potable water in Hungary!
We can't slide on the Danube between beautiful water-worn stones and rocks!
A very good game for adults.
For example, my daughter had her first rafting at the age of 3, on her mother's lap, and she said: Dad, this rafting is very good, but please paddle in a way that I don't get wet!

It mixes many childhood experiences: the slide, the rubber boat, dodgem, and Old Shatterhand.
You will never forget it!

We expect the participants to be able to swim 100 meters.
Before every first day's tour, there is a 30-minute briefing where we discuss all possible situations and tasks. This is compulsory.

A few more words about authenticity:
Some of our previous corporate team building projects: Nokia, Avon, Fetis Bt, or the blind employees of the Invisible Exhibition.
The foundation of the team is Tamás Vrana (Vranek) and Endre Nagy (Andrew)
Other team members Róbert Bódis (A Robi), Lóri Madarász (a Lóri), Szabolcs Hornyák (Szabi), Mike Roland (Pusztító)

Tamás (Vranek) traveled half of Europe, worked as a tour guide in Italy and Belgium, has been white water kayaking since 1996, is one of the best-known faces of white water life in Hungary.
By the way, he is an international lifeguard, IRF 5 tour leader, Jiujicu master, and worked for two years in Chile at the company Trancura, where he gathered perhaps his toughest experiences. Countless class 5 river canyons have been paddled, including the famous Futaleufu in Chile.

Andrew he has been leading ski and canoe tours since he was a university student, almost 30 years. Known freeride skier and freeride snowboarder. Since 2002, he has been leading sea kayak tours, he has traveled to the southern seas of Europe, northern Italy, the Croatian Adriatic, all the islands of the Good Sea, and the northern side of the Aegean Sea.
As a tour guide, he has paddled 55 European whitewater rivers from Romania/France, Slovakia, Corsica. He rowed kayaks in the Atlantic Ocean in Morocco, but also in the Caribbean Sea.

Robin he is one of the most dedicated whitewater kayakers in Hungary, and he also practices French boxing 6 days a week.

Lori one of the best developing kayaking talents among Hungarian kayakers, by the way, he also organizes his own tours on the Salza river.

Hornyák Szabit must not be introduced, since 1996 he has been leading rafting trips almost every weekend. He is the only person who has led a tour for every raft company. It's worth two.
And a good kayaker.

Pusztító is a concept, always nice, always calm, everyone has had the level to lead a tour in this genre, we work together in winter. He is best known as a mainstay tour guide of the white-water company.

Once in Nuremberg, when Vranek and I were exhibiting our rafts of our own design at the Paddelmesse, a Russian colleague came to talk to us and asked: have you ever been to Africa to paddle on the Zambezi?
We weren't, I replied, what's it like?
” if you got over the buzz called the last smile, the second half of your life begins!”