Whitewater kayak tours also for beginners
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Short description
Whitewater kayak tour with inflatable kayaks is available for people who do not have any whitewater kayaking experience. If you do not want to go on a 5 days kayak course and just want to do a whitewater kayak tour to explore the emerald Soca river and navigate your own kayak, that is what you are searching for!
These kayaks will give you a fun ride, challenge you, most probably get you wet, and ensure big, big smiles at the end of your trip!
You need just a few minutes to learn how to navigate the kayak, just a little practice and in the end of the trip you want to ride the biggest waves. Our whitewater kayak tours are guided by professional kayak instructors who tell you everything about the safety in the put in place and teach you some technics how to steer the kayaks.
The trip goes on an awesome scenic section of the Soca river, where the first part is calm water with some small rapids, this can be good for practicing, and later on you can choose more challenging lines and bigger waves as well, or just go on the easiest line.
At all times your instructor will keep a practiced eye on how you are going. If you flip anyway, do not worry, you just jump back to your kayak and enjoy the rest of your rapids.
Quick infos
If you have a medical condition
Required health condition for whitewater programs:
It is important for us to know if you have a medical condition when you participate on our whitewater rafting, canyoning, whitewater kayak tour. In this case we can take better care of you and avoid accidents, if any problem happens, our guides are more prepared and can faster solve the problem. All of our guides are certified whitewater rescuer, they renew their licence every 2-3 years and have a wide variety of experience.
Unfortunately you can not participate on any of our whitewater program if you are
- not swimmer
- under the influence of drugs and alcohol
- pregnant
- physically or mentally disabled
- blind or deaf
You might be able to join to our whitewater tours
Please consult us about your medical condition if you :
- have asthma, epilepsy or diabetes
- have a heart condition
- have a spine problem (spinal hernia, problem with discs...),
- had an operation in the last 2 years
- had an injury in the last 2 years (broken bones, dislocated shoulder..),
- have a blood clotting problem
- serious allergy
- or any other medical condition which is not listed above
Please let us know if you need any medicine during the tour, you can take it with you to the river or to the canyon. Our guides have a waterproof box for First aid kit, they can put your medicine into it. And last but not least Please inform your guide about your medical condition! .
Details of Whitewater kayak tour
Where to meet - how it goes
Let's meet at the Soca Rider Office which you can find 10 m-s from the main square of Bovec, to begin your whitewater kayak tour on Soca River.After arranging the paper work and the payment, your guide staff will equip everyone with the necessary equipment.
After we will take a quick, 10 minutes drive to the put-in with the Soca Rider's jeep. We change next to Soca river (leave all the dry clothes in the jeep), and after the safety talk and some practicing nothing left, just to enjoy your kayak tour with us!
We finish our whitewater trips in the parking place, where the Soca Rider's jeep is waiting for us, so you can change immediately, and we have a short drive back to Bovec!
What to bring:
- swim suit
- towel
- dry underwear to change after the tour
- suncream
- strap for glasses/sunglasses
What we give you:
- helmet,
- buoyancy aid,
- neoprene suit,
- neoprene shoes,
- splashing or neoprene jacket, or both, or none (depending on the weather).
Other than kayaking
In our office we would be happy to give you some advise what to see in the Soca valley, natural wonders, good excursions, mountain trails! And you can check our small shop where you can find Soca Rider T-shirts
Reviews of Soca Rider
Soca Rider won the Certificate of Excellence in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
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Easy kayak tour also for beginners
White water kayak tour
This kayak tour is a great opportunity to get a taste of whitewater kayaking. Our inflatable kayaks are stable kayaks, easy to navigate with them. We teach you in the beginning of the tour and practice, and just after start the tour to hit the rapids. This kayak behave very similar on whitewater as the plastic one, but with this you can run almost immediately easy whitewater, without spending lots of time with practice.
Prices of kayak trip
| Low season 28.03-30.06 és 01.09-30.10 | High season 01.07-31.08 | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults | 55 € | 58 € |
| Students | 50 € | 53 € |
| Kids under 15 years | 45 € | 48 € |
Easy whitewater kayak tour infos
- Easy kayak tour is available:
- From 28th of March until 30th of September
- Easy kayak tour start
- 9.30am, 2pm
- Required minimum participants
- Easy kayak tour starts with minimum of 2 people!
The price includes
- time on river 1,5 hour
- professional guides (with Slovenian licences)
- all necessary equipment
- transfer between Bovec and Soca river
- River permition
- You will get photos from your tour as a present!
Csaszi
Founder, guideI love waters from my childhood. I started as a flat water canoe competitor, later I navigated my sea kayak along the sea coast and around many islands of Croatia, on the Adriatic. Recently I paddle mostly in whitewater kayak, but I still like every kind of water. In the time of the university I was working during the weekends as a rafting guide in Slovakia, Austria and Slovenia. After a few years of unsuccessful attempt as a horticultural engineer, I returned to the whitewater. I was working as a guide almost every day since 2008. Summertime in Slovenia, wintertime in Chile. Now, I am using the experience of many years in our company. In my free time of course I go cycling, or to the mountains, or I ride the Soča with my kayak. The Soča river is one of the most beautiful rivers I have ever paddled and this is the valley, where I am very glad to guide you!Petra
Founder, Contact managerhanks to my parents, I was sitting in a boat very early, mostly on flat waters of Hungary at first, and later on whitewaters of Austria as well. Later I was falling in love with the sea kayaking: a lot of water, huge distances, remote islands with all the beauty and danger of it. I went to South America spending half year there with Gyula, and I could see really high quality of whitewaters, and what does it mean, living close to the nature? From that time, there was no option to return to a big city and to my "old" life. We moved to Slovenia, to Bovec. I have a pharmacist degree, and I have thought I will cure the people with drugs, but I found something in Slovenia, what is able to cure in a better way. This is, what I would like to show you. I am always glad to go to the water, or to ride my bike roaming the countryside, or so happily put on my boots to go to the mountains of Julian Alps! This is my real world!Jofo
GuideJofo loves to be on the river and guide. He is an enthusiastic guide with a great sense of humor and with a spectial talent of figuring out good anymations, to get some extra on your trip. You can meet him on canyoning and whitewater rafting tour of Soca Rider. He was a flatwater kayaker since his childhood, and guided a lot of whitewater rafting tour in Slovenia and India. He's working on, that as you are a guest of the Soca Rider, have a safe, fun and memorable whitewater adventure, and that you always want to return to us, to the Soca valley.Laci
GuideLaci is a friendly, dedicated and very helpful whitewater rafting guide of Soca Rider's Soca rafting tour. We are very happy to know him in our team. He is always checking where to help. He was working on whitewater in Austria and Slovenia. His other passion is riding a bike, he discoverd a lot of contries all over the word by bike. He is always paying attention, that you, as a guest of the Soca Rider, have a great time in Bovec, a safe and fun whitewater adventure, and that you always want to return to us, the Soca valley.