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| ashu |
Posted
on 14-Jul-03 07:07 PM
Hi all,
Our country Nepal is a wonderful place for adventure sports.
Nepal offers -- at reasonable rates to Nepalis -- tons of opportunities to do bungy-jumping, para-gliding, hang-gliding, hiking, trekking, canoeing, kayaking, rapeling mountaineering, and of course, rafting.
In future, purely from a business standpoint, Nepal could be developed further as a top destination for (nature-friendly) adventure sports (yeah, let's add sky-diving too!)
Meantime, with Bhaktapur's Yogi Kayastha as our able leader, a bunch of us nature-loving friends are going rafting this coming Saturday. Should be fun, assuming we don't get rained out.
Iso Freak, I tried calling you, but your line was/is busy -- but do come to this, this Saturday. Call me at the office, and I'll give you details. Niranjan, if you are reading
this. do come too. Plus, other Sajha folks in Kathmandu are welcome too.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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Organizer: Equator Expedition, Thamel (Phone: 4-354 169 - Mr. Mahendra Thapa)
Date: Saturday, 19 July 2003
Departure time: 6.30 AM from Sorha Khutte, KTM
One way drive: 2.5 hours to the site
Rafting starts from: 2 km up from Sukute Bazar
Total rafting hour before lunch break: 2 hours
Lunch break: In a resort owned and run by Equetor Expdn, Sukute
Rafting ends at: Dolalghat
Total cost: Rs. 750 per person
Cost includes: 2 way transprotation, lunch, 4 hour rafting, and a bottle of coke at the end of rafting!
No. of people in one raft: 8
Each rafter will be provided with life jacket and this is going to be Class-II rafting.
Bus will arrive in KTM (if everything goes as per plan) by 6 PM.
The last date to buy/confirm ticket: Thursday, 17 July 2003.
Maximum capacity: no more than 100 people!
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| Brook |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 12:24 AM
Sounds like an exciting outing at a reasonable price.
I got here about a week ago and I don't know if it's because I'm not working and all that but Kathmandu has become ridiculously expensive! No?
Anyway, although I can't make this trip this time aorund, I would love to connect with other Sajha folks here. I take it IS-freak doesn't have much left.
By the by, isn't rafting quite a dangerous sport this time of the year?
Bagmati looks ominously swollen and dirty. I can only imagine what Trishuli must be like.
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| Boke |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:21 AM
Sounds like fun. Does one have to know how to swim before partaking in rafting pleasure?
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| NK |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:47 AM
Boke, nope.
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| bhenda2 |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:48 AM
Class 2 rafting is not that rough its a medium one....it sounds so fun...I wish I was in Nepal.
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| bhenda2 |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:51 AM
What about helmets Ashu?? I dont think its a wise idea to go rafting without them.
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| najar |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:51 AM
Ashu says--"Iso Freak, I tried calling you, but your line was/is busy"
Iso Freak sajha maa byasta thhiyo hola :)
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Sounds so much fun, i wish i could go :(
Ashu, and all else- whoever is going--have a great time, and let us know how it went, and post some pictures too..
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| KaLaNkIsThAn |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 08:53 AM
Bheda2 bro chai rafting bhanda pani badhi jyaan jogaaune upaaye tira concentrate bhaa cha... la la cha cha !!
hehe.
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| bhenda2 |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 09:27 AM
Kalankisthan jyu....pheri raft bata phutrukka khasera...dhungo ma touko paryo bhaney ta chhattt.....pheri ali ali bhako budhi jiwi haru brain damageded bhe bhanye ta apat parcha nee....deshlai nee...sajha lai nee...tehi bhera po...
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Jul-03 02:25 PM
Bhenda2,
Thanks for your advice on helmets.
I'll have to check with our leader Yogi Kayastha, and see what's what. Since Yogi, a
long-time friend, has been taking us friends on numerous treks, hikes, trips and so on and on, I would assume that he must have thought about the helmets too, if need be.
At any rate, Brook, the issue of safety is certainly a topmost priority on a trip like this, and I'll make sure that it stays the topmost priority.
Najar, I sure will post pictures and a write-up, just like the one for that Champa Devi
hike of March '03.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 17-Jul-03 05:18 AM
Rafting info
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| ashu |
Posted
on 19-Jul-03 07:37 PM
Hi all,
Rafting on Bhote Koshi was very, very good yesterday. Eleven of us enjoyed and survived the trip all right.
I urge all of you to go rafting once or more in Nepal -- especially in the months of April and May, or in the Fall.
Yogi Kayastha, nature maven, will do a write-up of the trip, and he and Surendra Sthapit will post the pictures too . . . on a Web site, and a link will be provided soon.
Next adventure sport to look forward to: Paragliding in Pokhara in Sept.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| ashu |
Posted
on 31-Jul-03 06:23 PM
Again, I would urge all of you go rafting or engage in similar adventure sports in Nepal.
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