Wild river rafting a way of life in Poland's deep south Dressed in a traditional Polish highlander gear, these river rafting guides are the mountain man version of the gondoliers of Venice. In a job handed down from father to son for nearly two centuries, they use long wooden poles to manoeuver wooden rafts down the Dunajec river gorge. While they stopped floating logs to markets downstream decades ago, now they are delighting holidaymakers with wild river rides through southern Poland's breath-taking Pieniny mountains.