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Rafting is a shared pleasure - and adventure

  Taking the plunge in Tavropos
 
Negotiating the rapids of Evrytania whets appetite for more daring river adventures

“Left back! Right forward! All forward! In! Left in! Ca-a-reful! STOP!” This was no boot camp led by a red-faced army sergeant barking orders at his troops, but a mid-winter baptizing into the exhilarating sport of rafting for a bunch of city-dwellers on central Greece’s Tavropos river.


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