Liability Waiver & Assumption of Risk
Last updated: August 2026. This applies to every guest who books a Rasna trip, whichever activities you choose. By booking, you confirm you've read and accept it.
Rasna is not a bus tour. Depending on what you choose, your trip can include harvesting olives, descending into 2,800-year-old rock-cut tombs, riding horses or walking with donkeys through the countryside, foraging for wild asparagus or mushrooms, hiking, playing football with locals, tasting wine at a cantina, and working in kitchens with knives, fire, and hot equipment. Those experiences are the point — but like any real, physical, outdoor activity, they carry real risk. This page explains that risk plainly, so you can decide, informed, whether the trip — and each activity in it — is right for you.
In plain terms
If you're hurt during a Rasna activity, we will act immediately — calling an ambulance, getting you to a doctor or hospital, contacting your emergency contact, and doing everything we reasonably can to help. That's a given. But you're an adult choosing to take part in physical activities, and you're responsible for your own safety, judgment, and physical limits while you do them. If you get hurt through the ordinary risk of the activity itself, and not because we did something wrong, that's on you, not on Rasna. This is exactly what the sections below spell out in legal terms.
Nature of the activities
Rasna's catalog is broad and changes with the season. Depending on which activities you or your group select, your trip may include:
- Walking on uneven, ancient terrain — rock-cut Etruscan tombs, the Via Clodia, and the necropolis involve steps, narrow passages, low clearances, loose stone, and unguarded drops.
- Horseback riding and donkey excursions (Civitella Cesi, San Giovenale) — inherently unpredictable activities involving a live animal, regardless of your experience level or the animal's temperament.
- Hiking (e.g. Il Mignone Hike) on unpaved trails, uneven ground, and variable weather.
- Farm and harvest work — olive, grape, and tomato harvesting involve ladders, hand tools, uneven orchard and field ground, and exposure to insects, sun, and weather.
- Foraging for wild asparagus or wild mushrooms in woodland, off maintained paths — mushroom foraging in particular carries a real risk of misidentification, which is why it's always guided; guests must not eat anything foraged that hasn't been confirmed safe by the host.
- Hands-on cooking and food production — knives, open flame, hot oil, wood-fired ovens, and curing/butchery demonstrations.
- Wine and food tastings at cantine and sagre/festivals — alcohol is served; you're responsible for your own consumption and for not driving or riding afterward.
- Active/social activities such as a pick-up football game, which carry ordinary sport-related injury risk.
- Local transport on rural Italian roads and, where applicable, crowded local festivals and events with large crowds.
Local hosts and artisans run many of these activities as independent providers. Rasna selects and coordinates them, but doesn't control their day-to-day operation of an animal, kitchen, or workshop.
Assumption of risk
By booking, you acknowledge that these activities carry inherent risks — including slips, falls, animal-related injury, cuts, burns, insect stings, allergic reactions, foraging-related illness, and motion-related injury — that cannot be eliminated even with reasonable care, and you voluntarily choose to take part with knowledge of those risks.
This doesn't ask you to sign away rights the law doesn't let us take. Under Italian law, we can't and don't exclude our liability for death or personal injury caused by our own negligence, gross negligence, or wilful misconduct, or for any liability that can't lawfully be limited (Italian Civil Code, Art. 1229). What it does mean is that Rasna is not liable for injury or loss arising from the ordinary, inherent risks of these activities when we've taken reasonable care — the kind of risk that comes with riding a horse or walking down a 2,800-year-old staircase, not from something we did wrong.
What we ask of you
These aren't formalities — if you're hurt because you didn't follow one of them, that's taken into account in assessing what happened (Italian Civil Code, Art. 1227).
- Come reasonably fit for a physically active trip — walking, uneven ground, and a full day's pace on most days.
- Tell us about any medical condition, mobility limitation, allergy, or pregnancy that might affect your participation, before you book if possible.
- Follow the instructions of your guide, host, or activity leader, particularly around animals, tools, knives, foraging, and tomb access — and sit out any activity you're not comfortable with. You're always free to opt out on the day.
- Wear appropriate footwear and clothing for each activity.
- Drink responsibly at tastings and festivals, and never eat foraged food unless a host has confirmed it's safe.
- Arrange travel insurance that covers activity-related injury, medical treatment, and evacuation in Italy. This is your responsibility, not something we provide.
Limitation of liability
Because Rasna combines accommodation, meals, and activities into a single package, our liability for how the trip is delivered — including activities run by our local hosts — is governed by the EU Package Travel Directive (2015/2302), as implemented in Italy through the Codice del Turismo. Under that law, we cannot exclude or cap our liability for death or personal injury caused by improper performance of the trip. What we're liable for is fault: ours or our local hosts'. We are not liable for injury or loss caused by the inherent risk of an activity in the absence of fault, by your own actions, by an unrelated third party, or by unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances.
To the maximum extent permitted by Italian and EU law, our liability for damage other than personal injury is limited to direct damages arising from our own proven fault, and excludes indirect or consequential loss (such as missed connecting travel or lost income). Nothing here limits any right you have under mandatory consumer-protection law.
Governing law
This waiver is governed by Italian law, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you're entitled to under the law of your own country of residence. See also our Cancellation & Refund Policy.
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