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River-Rafting Adventures Some people choose river-rafting trips along the calmer portions of the Colorado River. Others prefer to bronco ride the more challenging of the canyon's 60 rapids, and a few commit themselves to the entire 277-mile span, becoming so at one with the canyon that after 17 days they feel their lives have been altered and the canyon has become a part of them. For all the Colorado River adventures, experienced guides are at the helm, mindful of each rapid's pattern and dangers and skillfully maneuvering the boats for the safest ride possible. On these trips, there are astonishing side hikes to otherwise inaccessible canyons, surprise waterfalls, unanticipated flowering gardens, and memorable camping experiences where one sleeps on the ground or on a ledge and bathes in the river without a care in the world. While adventurers pitch their tents, the guides set up camp and meals. By air, the Grand Canyon unfolds in all its glory, and one sees the canyon the way only birds have seen it - laid out in all its splendor. Tours such as the "The Grand Discovery" at Grand Canyon Airlines offer breathtaking overviews of the Canyon. The Grand Discovery is a 100-mile air tour around the most famous and beautiful parts of the Grand Canyon. The airline's signature 19-passenger Vistaliner airplane, with its panoramic windows for unobstructed views, travels along the Canyon's South Rim up the Zuni Corridor, past the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers and back along the North Rim and down the Dragon's Corridor, which has an uncanny resemblance to a sleeping dragon. The effect of seeing the Grand Canyon, with its exquisite colors and formations, suddenly appearing out of a flat plateau is unforgettable. Headphones provide rousing symphonic music and narration in several languages. The only thing missing is the Hallelujah Chorus.  
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