点评:BEWARE! This once in a life time raft trip of the Upper Grand Canyon ended up being a very miserable experience for us. Although the scenery and weather were perfect, the experience was ruined by the other guests and some of the guides. It all revolves around the toileting experience. We were told that while we were on the river, that men go downstream and the women go upstream when we stop or we can get out of the boat and go in the river directly. This process worked for the first day only. Starting on the second day of the trip we wake to see some of the male guides peeing directly off the boat and not following the rules of going downstream and certainly not being discreet or modest about it. After that the other male guests would pee directly off the boat or so close to the boat that you could see them while in the boat. We talked to the head guide repeatedly about this, and she told us that was just the river culture and to deal with it. By the next to the last day of the trip even some of the other women guests refused to go upstream and just peed next to the boat.
Also, the placement of the portable toilet at camp was not always the most private. One campsite had the toilet placed within viewing distance of a walk path and by this point in the trip, modesty was certainly not being enforced by the guides or adhered to by other guests.
After the trip I tried to contact the owners of Outdoors Unlimited twice about our experience and trying to get them to enforce the policies stated the first day out, of women going up stream and men going down stream to pee. Six months later I have still not heard a single word back from the owners.
翻译:小心!一生一次的上大峡谷漂流之旅最终给我们带来了非常糟糕的体验。虽然风景和天气都很完美,但其他客人和一些导游破坏了我们的体验。这一切都围绕着如厕体验。我们被告知,当我们在河上时,当我们停下来时,男人顺流而下,女人逆流而上,或者我们可以下船直接进入河中。这种方法只在第一天有效。从旅行的第二天开始,我们醒来时看到一些男导游直接在船外小便,没有遵守顺流而下的规则,而且显然没有谨慎或谦虚。之后,其他男客人会直接在船外小便,或者在离船很近的地方小便,以至于你在船上都能看到他们。我们反复与领队导游谈论这件事,她告诉我们,这只是河流文化,要处理好它。到了旅行的第二天,甚至一些其他女性客人也拒绝逆流而上,而是在船边小便。
此外,营地的便携式厕所的位置并不总是最私密的。一个营地的厕所位于步行道的可视距离内,到了旅行的这个时候,导游显然没有强制要求保持谦虚,其他客人也没有遵守。
旅行结束后,我两次尝试联系 Outdoors Unlimited 的所有者,告诉他们我们的经历,并试图让他们执行第一天制定的政策,即女性逆流而上,男性顺流而下小便。六个月过去了,我仍然没有收到所有者的任何回复。