Hila Rao Shrine: Drifting Solution and Chests (BotW)

Where is Hila Rao Shrine?

Look for Floret Sandbar northeast of Riverside Stable. Once on the island, follow the bare ground between the flower beds to the shrine entrance. Use the BotW shrine location table to match the map marker before approaching.

Talk to Magda beside the flowers to start Watch Out for the Flowers. Reach and activate the shrine without trampling her plants to finish it. This is an approach challenge around an already visible shrine; no quest makes the building appear.

What should you bring?

Nothing exotic is required: the only essentials are Sheikah Slate runes you already have from the Great Plateau — Cryonis, Magnesis, and Remote Bombs (Stasis is never needed here). There is no combat inside, so weapons, armor, and resistance gear are all optional. The Paraglider isn’t strictly required either, but it lets you glide off your ice pillar at the end instead of swimming.

Shrine entrance

Video walkthrough

Hila Rao Shrine Guide — YouTube

How do you solve Drifting?

Bring Cryonis, Magnesis, and Remote Bombs for the route below. There is no Guardian duel or required weapon. Cryonis can also replace the moving platforms if the jumps are awkward.

1. Cross the Pools

Cross the entrance pool. Wait for the wooden platform to drift within reach, jump onto it, and continue to the opposite bank. Ice pillars are an alternative crossing.

Cross the wider pool. Jump between its drifting platforms toward the far bank, or build a crossing with Cryonis.

2. Retrieve the Chests

Retrieve the submerged chest. Look underwater near the far wall of this wider pool, then use Magnesis to bring the metal chest onto dry ground and open it.

Lift the floating chest. At the final, circular-current pool, wait for the wooden chest to pass within reach. Create a Cryonis pillar directly underneath it, climb up, and open it.

3. Clear the Exit and Finish

Bomb the cracked exit wall. Return to the bank and throw a Remote Bomb into the water. Let it drift toward the cracked blocks across the pool, then detonate it beside them.

Go through the cleared exit. Swim across after the wall is destroyed, pass through the opening, and interact with the monk at the altar for the Spirit Orb.

Where are the chests, and what do they contain?

The submerged metal chest and the drifting wooden chest need different runes. Check the wider pool before moving on to the circular current.

What do people miss here?

• The wooden planks drift downstream and then vanish for good — if your ride floats out of reach, don’t swim after it. A new platform always appears on the right, so just wait on the bank.
• Fish the sunken metal Opal chest out while you’re still standing on the middle platform: Magnesis it out of the water and toss it into the hallway ahead, then open it at leisure once you’re across — easier than hauling it onto land from the far bank.
• The final circular current carries bomb barrels along with the wooden Ice Arrow chest. Before detonating your Remote Bomb at the cracked wall, check that no barrel is drifting nearby, or the extra explosion will catch you too.
• The exit is blocked by two cracked squares, but only one of them needs to shatter. Once it’s open, you can paraglide down from your Cryonis pillar instead of swimming across.
• Stepping on the flowers escalates beyond a simple reset: every trampling makes Magda angrier, and if you keep it up she will eventually attack you, leaving you with a minimum of a quarter of a heart — all before you’ve even set foot inside.

What else is nearby?

Which related guides should you use next?

• All BotW shrine locations: continue checking off shrines by tower region.
• How to find BotW shrines: use the map and shrine-finding guide for your next destination.
• Tears of the Kingdom vs. Breath of the Wild: compare the games before choosing your next adventure.