Wow this was great fun. I was a little worried having never done White Water Rafting before but these rapids are pretty tame but really fun.
We were picked up by Bali Adventure Tours from our hotel and taken to the main Bali Adventure Tours office where there are change rooms, showers and lockers so you can bring a change of clothes.
We were then taken to the equiptment office where we were given a life jacket, waterproof bag for small valuables and our paddle and we met our Boat 'Guide'.
There are then 600 steps to go down to get to the river where you will start. My legs were shaking at the bottom of these.
Then you get a briefing with the 'guide' who will tell you how to hold your paddle, and what you need to do on his commands 'forward' 'back' and 'stop'. The Guide does most of the work, you just provide some extra power if needed.
My only criticism and this would have made the ride so much better is if they could try to keep language groups together, we had the guide, us 2 aussies and 3 Chinese people in the boat with us. The guide would call out the commands in both English and Chinese but the Chinese people just didn't seem to listen at all, he would say Forward and they would paddle backwards ect. The guide did thank us at the end as we had to help him with momentum, but it was very frustrating. If they could keep the boats more language specific I think it would be more enjoyable for everyone.
After the rafting there is a buffet lunch which is delicious.