Experience the remains of the rich timber rafting tradition! Let raftsmen and rafting Mademoiselles conjure you up to the magic of this once very respectful profession while navigating on the river Drava. The timber rafting on the river Drava will, due to their positive life attitude and culinary specialties, forever stay in your memory. Rafters from Maribor are the ones, that can take you on a rafting ride with the most autochthonous raft in Slovenia. They also offer a terrestrial version of the timber rafting experience in the “rafting tavern”. Rafting can be experienced with our partners from Dravograd to Maribor.
Rafting in the past…
Timber rafting along the river Drava has a very rich tradition. It origins in the 13. century, when the raft was used for transportation of soldiers and their equipment. Due to the increasing demand for timber wood from the surrounding woods of Pohorje and Kozjak in 19th century and in the beginning of 20. century, rafting on the river Drava has experienced a boom all the way to the end of the II. world war, when the railway replaced the river transportation.