Rapid Transit Indeed: Rafting Six Continents There are white-water rafting trips and then there are white-water rafting voyages. Mountain Travel Sobek offers the latter: a 25-day, six-continent journey along nine rivers with class III through V rapids. The one-time trip, May 9 to June 2, 2013, promises rafters scenery and excitement as well as relatively easy access to international airports. It starts in the Sierra Nevada in California, then moves on to the Rio Toachi in a rain forest in Ecuador. Next is the Noguera Pallaresa in the Pyrenees in Spain, followed by the Athi River in Kenya, which borders Tsavo National Park. In India, rafters will run the Tons River in the Himalayas, then push on to Queensland in Australia for four days of class V rapids on the North Johnstone River. On the trip, limited to 12 travelers, paddlers will have free time in Barcelona, Cairns, Delhi and Nairobi. Danilo Bonilla, the company's director of river programs, expects to draw "white-water river junkies." The $8,695 price includes guides, accommodations and meals, but not around-the-world airfare.