On a canoe for 38 days
They were canoeing for 38 days. They passed through ten borders. They did even 120 kilometer daily. Life adventure of two Warsaw students completed successfully. They passed 3 thousand kilometer from the Danube source in Germany to the Black Sea.
Andrzej Burgs, Darek Aksamit, Wojtek Molik and Olek Piątek, they called their adventure a Danube Expedition 2008. They organized everything on their own.
They were canoeing to Vienna for 17 hours in rain. Serbian customs officers wanted a payoff in exchange for permission to cross their border. In Germany they came across flooding water and Danube changed from a guiet river into a rough stream. In the Carpathian mountains the temperature dropped to 10 degree Celcius. And somewhere in Romania in the middle of a night they run into a gang of poachers.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza
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