Team Building Activity In Rafting

Team Building Definition

Team building is the process of changing a group of individual or a group of society, a group of company, a group of friends and a group of families into a better and cohesive team

Team building must have a vision or a mission to completed among team members. While everyone had their own mission themself it must synergies or merge within the team members

Rafting Definition

Rafting is a kind of recreational outdoor activities which use any flat structure raft for support or transportation over water. A raft is a flat bottomed craft that must able to float and drift on water

We have 4-kinds of raft that normally use in Malaysia

1) Bamboo Raft

2) Drum Raft

3) Survival Raft

4) Inflatable Raft

The first one was a Bamboo Raft. Bamboo rafts are created by tying many bamboo sweat and steams tied together to form a kind of water transport using in the river, lake or sea. To make a bamboo raft you need to prepare a bamboo, a rope, a cutter and a basic tying skills

In Malaysia we have about 879-island listed by Department Of Surveying and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM). For those who want to do Bamboo Rafting activities in a sea area, you may want to visit or do a some reading about the island HERE. When you see the island meaning that there is a sea surrounded the island

The 2nd kind of raft is a drum raft. Drum raft is a same activity with Bamboo Raft. The only different is how to made it. You can prepare an empty oil drums that usually made from high density polyethelene (H.D.P.E.), a rope, a skill to do a tying rope, a wooden poles or a bamboo also can use together for Drum Raft

The 3rd kind of raft is a survival rafting. Survival Rafting is an activity use any kind of things to survive or float and drift on water. The Survival Rafting can made from a bottle, a groundsheet, a floating wood, a pants or trousers while they await a rescue if there is no other safe places to touch down

The 4th kind of raft is a Inflatable Raft. An inflatable Raft is a lightweight boat constructed with its sides and bow made of flexible tubes containing pressurised gas. It must floats when filled with air. Inflatable Raft can do either for River Rafting or White Water Rafting

The material used by the vast majority of manufacturers of inflatable boats is multilayer polyvinyl chloride or PVC, reinforced for strength with a mesh of polyester threads. This is a synthetic polymer fabric, it is much superior to rubber in its performance properties

RIVER RAFTING : River Rafting is an outdoor recreational activity with the current of a river. Normally the current in the river area are not same with the current in whitewater river area

WHITE WATER RAFTING : White Water Rafting is an adventure recreational outdoor activities in turbulent waters. Whitewater is when a river forms a bubbly or aerated and unstable current. This frothy water appears white hence the name

In Malaysia we have 10-popular place to do White Water Rafting

1) Kedamaian White Water Rafting

2) Kiulu White Water Rafting

3) Padas White Water Rafting

4) Sg Kampar White Water Rafting

5) Kuala Kubu Bharu White Water Rafting

6) Sg Sedim White Water Rafting

7) Ulu Slim White Water Rafting

8) Jeram Besu White Water Rafting

9) Kuala Tahan White Water Rafting

10) Sg Singor Grik White Water Rafting

4) Sg Kampar White Water Rafting

Sg Kampar or Kampar River is the name of the White Water Rafting venue popular as a place to play rafting or White Water Rafting. Sg Kampar or Sg Itek or Sg Gopeng or Sg Jahang actually is the same river using for White Water Rafting activities

Compare with others 10 or more popular river for White Water Rafting in Malaysia, Sungai Kampar is the most safer area to play White Water Rafting here. Although in monsoon raining season happen almost every year at end of the year such November and Disember, Sg Kampar are more lucky because surrounding by a few hill in Gopeng area, the White Water Rafting places here less effected

Most of the ending of White Water Rafting will be landing at Dataran Kg Jahang. While the ending is Dataran Kg Jahang then the meeting point also will mostly at Dataran Kg Jahang. You can read HERE on how to go to meeting point of rafting

White Water Rafting got many packages to choose. The details package can be view HERE. The time session normally start at 9-am in the morning and the next session at 2pm in the evening. Anyone can come within that period of session or can WALK-IN as well. The last check-in timing for White Water Rafting here at least must come before 4-pm. Otherwise you will be ending in night view session!