Sun Kosi River Rafting – “The River of Gold”

Day 01: Grab some fresh Bakery goods hot out of the oven for our 3 to 4 hour bus drive along the friendship highway to Dolaghat. The road takes us high above the river with awesome views of the Himalaya along the way. We take some lunch on the river bank in the bustling town and set up the rafts. We head to the river for a gentle afternoon of rafting and a nice introduction to the rafting gang to get our coordination and team work up to scratch for the days to come.

Day 02-08: Before us, we have 270km of blissfully traffic free river to ourselves with plenty of excellent rapids to keep us on the edge of our seats. The river carries us along at a nice pace through huge holes, rapids and past massive boulders in the river. At night times we will camp out on the lush white beaches where we can unwind after a hard days paddling. The course of the Sun Koshi offers up some world-renowned rapids, such as Harkapur 2, Dead Mans Eddy and Jaws. Further, down the river joins with the white flowing Dhud Koshi, which has tumbled its way down form Everest, the water gets noticeably colder as well. The 7 km of river called the Jungle Corridor looms up to us after this meeting of rivers. It is a wild wild rapid ride through a steep sided jungled canyon from one pounding rapid to the next, which is going to get your heart racing.

Day 09: Just when you think it is all over, the last big rapid of this trip is called The Big Dipper, after which the river lets up, we all let out a sigh of relief and make our take out near where the Sun Koshi joins with the Tamur and the Arun Rivers. It is a short drive and flight back to Kathmandu where we can all have a hot shower, let down our hair and celebrate our amazing trip on one of the world’s best white water rafting rivers.