Whitewater rafting on the Futalafeu

On our last stop in Chile before crossing into Argentina again we stopped in this tiny little village named Futalafeu.
It lies next to the Futalefeu river, apparently one of the top 5 in the whole world to do whitewater rafting. We signed up for a trip but weren't sure until the day we were supposed to go if it'll work out or not since it has been raining there for the past 3 weeks and the company wasn't able to take anyone out on the river cause the water level was too high.
We were really lucky cause it stopped raining and the water level sunk to a decent level (still pretty high though)

We went out on two rafts. One with 6 people and ours with 4 (Nigel, Chiara, me and a guy from Sweden). The rafting was simply AMAZING! Probably one of the most fun things I've ever done!
You're out there in this little raft getting washed around from one huge rapid to the next one, the raft violently rocking up and down, icecold water splashing into your face, trying to paddle through the rapid as hard as you can and it all makes you feel so tiny and vulnerable. I totally lost track of time and didn't know if we've been out on the river for 30 minutes or 3 hours.

I was really tempted to stay another couple of days and do more rafting (or kayaking) but unfortunately ran out of cash and since the town didn't have an ATM machine or Credit card facilities I had to leave :(

Thinking about joining a kayaking club when I get back to Germany. It's such an awesome sport!