Backpackers planning to head out on a white-water rafting trip in New Zealand should first buy one-way travel insurance.
The Queenstown-based Serious Fun Riversurfing company will celebrate 20 years in the business on 31st January. The firm was set up way back in 1989 as the first commercial white-water rafting business in the world and has been operating trips on the Kamarau River in Queenstown ever since. The company started off as a few friends led by Hawaiian backpacker Jon Imhoof, and grew from free body-boarding trips to a full-blown tourist attraction.
Neil Harrison, the company's general manager, said: "Only recently we became the first white-water boarding activity in New Zealand to achieve Qualmark, New Zealand tourism's official mark of quality."
Mr Harrison added that the company offered New Zealand's longest stretch of Grade Four rapids.
Queenstown is one of New Zealand's most popular tourist towns, especially among backpackers with
worldwide travel insurance, owing to the wealth of adrenalin-fuelled activities on offer, from bungee-jumping to rafting and skiing.
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