River rafting An Enormous Experience @Rishkesh,India

Hi guys my name is shikhar patel and i am telling about my first experience of river rafting ,so It was time of summer vacations  & It was a sunny day like any other day in kanpur and i was getting borred from my regular life,then me and my friends decided to do something intresting in those vacations. So we planned for a trip to Rishikesh whichis an awesome place to spend your holidays..Then we booked a package of rishikesh from a traveling agency .We went on a trip to Rishikesh on 20 may 2014 . After a hectic client visit at office on 16 may 2014, we left the office at 4 am and took a totally different route. Noida; Gaziabad; Modinagar; Meerut; Mawana; Ramraj; Bijnor; Kiratpur; Najihabad; Haridwar and then Rishikesh. Our camp was 36kms away from Shivpuri. We did breakfast at Chidiyapur. we has Paranthas. pakoda(a type of snack) and Tea ,it just costed 50 Rs (<1$)per head which was really very cheap. After driving for approx 700 kms we reached our destination around 7 AM in morning. Our camp organiser Mr.manish chandra met us there and he informed us about the locations and do and don’ts in the camp area.

After walking downhill (300 mts steep) we reached our campsite. We met manager manoj there and he told us that 2 tents are ready for us and it will be our home for next 2 days. The Camp site was amazing. After keeping our bags in our tent we decided to go for Kayaking. Mr anurag our kayaking instructor gave us useful tips about kayaking and we all tried our best but either we were not able to maintain the balance or were too slow in rowing the kayak. We also tried swimming but the rocks didn’t allowed us to do that. Finally we found a place where there were no rocks in the river.we all enjoyed the free style swimming.

After that we lied down in the river and the current was so strong that we were automatically flowing with the water (Thanks to the life jackets). After spending 3 hours in water we came out at 5 pm and lied down on the banks to dry ourselves and then we had lunch. We then slept for 3 hours.



At 8:30 pm we were offered tea by Mr Yogesh, we enjoyed our tea with the biscuts that were given to us by our dear frnd anup at office. Me and ashish tried our hands on Volleyball and we were just messing around with the ball. suddenly a strong breeze took the ball away from us into the river and the ball went to the other side of the river :(.

At 9:30 pm bar-be-queue was organised and we enjoyed it with the drinks. After the drinks were over we all had fun,we sang danced and were also joined by the other groups sitting there. We sang all the songs possible from every famous singers. We also sang advertisement like washing powder nirma, Lifebuoy and Vico turmeric, This continued till midnight and then the dinner was served.



We go to bed around 2 am and woke up at 7am. After our morning activities we were served with heavy breakfast as we were going for our first rafting experience.

We went to our rafting site and met our rafting instructor Mr Chander Veer. He told us that we are going to raft for 4 hrs as the distance is 26 Kms. he told us not to shout so that we can hear his instructions. he started with a bit slow rafting and then asked us to just out of the raft holding the lifeline, which we all did. the we came across several rapids like Good Morning, Three Blind Mice, Cross Fire, Roller-Coaster,T of Golf, Golf Course and Club House and we had a body surfing rapid also in which we were allowed to jump out side the raft in the rapid. We also did the cliff jump which was amazing. My favorite part in rafting was three blind mice, roler coster, body surfing and cliff jumping. There were several times when we thought that our raft will hit the cliffs or will turn upside down but nothing happened as we followed the instructions carefully.  and then returned to kanpur via same route .when we return in way we enjoying full night we were singing ,dancing and may more such fun.and one thing "we never sleep while travelling b'cos its fun everywhere".

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