Rafting the Trisuli River

It’s a little late but I thought I would share my thoughts about our two day rafting trip (which included an over night camp along the river AND my first camp fire of the year – love camp fires!).

Traveling by water and through the river passage ways felt like we were in a different world. It also reminded me that I we have a river kayak at home (won it in a raffle before we left). The end of May signaled the beginning of the monsoon season so the water levels were just starting to rise thus making the rapids reach levels 1 – 3. Day 1 was very peaceful, especially when we all got off our rafts and floated our way down river. I could do that all day.

Day 2 started out with a refreshing down pour (and a slight hangover from last night). The most memorable event was when approached a protruding boulder in the middle of our second last rapids. I wasn’t sure why but for some reason, we were heading straight for it. No one really said or done anything (people were just staring at it) until I calmly screamed out “uh, um, ROCK!” (sigh….I’m known for saying that now). A split-second later, we then mounted the boulder and was idle for the longest 3 seconds of my life – we were all sure that we were going to flip over. And then, our raft calmly slid down the boulder and continued down stream as if nothing had happened, leaving us shocked and dumbfounded.

(I later found out that our rafting guide planned to have us go through that.)

We got photos (I’m mostly behind the camera), a video, and Tlell’s initial post about our trip.

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3 comments on “Rafting the Trisuli River”
  1. Dear Sir
    “Greetings from Himalayan River Fun Pvt. Ltd”

    I am Shankar Adhikari from Himalayan River Fun Pvt. Ltd. I am owner of this company. I am building resort on the Trisuli river side name called (Kurinighat). from next year i will make rafting camp on our resort. and if you again visit my company then i will provide you free rafting trip in Nepal’s Rivers.

    Thank you so much for giving chance to serve you.

    With best regards
    Shankar Adhikari
    Managing Director

    Himalayan River Fun Pvt. Ltd
    Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
    Tel: +977 1 44 44 618
    Fax: +977 1 44 43 533
    Url: http://www.nepalraft.com
    Url: http://www.himalayanriverfun.com
    Email: riverfun@wlink.com.np
    Email: info@nepalraft.com

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