Umtamvuna – Northern Most Transkei Border River
Ever since I started kayaking and read about the Umtamvuna River in Celliers Kruger’s book, I had wanted to paddle it. There was always a certain aura surrounding this river and it intrigued me for a long time. I would read the description again and again, perhaps in the hope of picking up something that I had missed before. When people spoke of it, I listened. The warnings of difficult and dangerous rapids had conjured up images in my mind and I could only dream of paddling that river about three years back. My lack of skill and the fact that I knew very few other paddlers kept me from going there for quite some time.