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Samana Fest 2024!

Hi friends and fellow paddlers! The Samana Fest is back! Once again, we have taken the event to the next level and it’s a pleasure for us to invite you to take part in the 2024 Samana Fest! The dates are 11 to 17 th of March, and we have organized a week of paddling,

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Continuing the legacy: Team RAFA headed to WRC 2022

Team RAFA is made up of young athletes from the town of Turrialba – Marcelo Omodeo, Sergio Jiménez, Enrique Segura, and Jose Contreras are the ones to be racing at WRC 2022. Marlon Bustos started the team in 2016 and after his first race was noticed by Rafa Gallo for the great work he was

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Ex-FARC Guerrillas in Colombia train to be Raft Guides

By Shannon Farley Nine ex-FARC guerrillas in Colombia have a new future ahead of them in adventure tourism, thanks to river rafting guide training provided by the International Rafting Federation (IRF) and Rios Tropicales adventure company in Costa Rica. The new raft guides, who are former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known

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River of Reconciliation in Colombia

Former FARC-EP Combatants in Colombia Trade Guns for Paddles By Shannon Farley Former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP in Spanish) might seem unlikely whitewater rafting guides. However, a project supported by the United Nations at the Miravalle Territorial Area for Training and Reincorporation (TATR) in the Municipality of

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