Camping - River Rafting - Paintball at Rishikesh

            Here I am going to talk about my adventurous, wonderful, heavenly experience at Rishikesh. Rishikesh is also known as "The Gateway to the Himalayas" !!, is indeed a spectacular place.

Famous river rafting spot at Rishikesh are Brahmpuri, Shivpuri, Marine Drive and Kaudiyala. Those destinations offer various hilarious rapids to feel the amazing river rafting experience at Ganga. White Water Rafting covering the decisive rapids like initiation (Grade-1), Sweet Sixteen (Grade-1), Cross Fire (Grade-3), Three Blind Mice (Grade-3), Roller Coaster (Grade-4) and Golf Course (Grade-4).


I along with my 11 friends, planned to go for camping ,River rafting at Rishikesh for 2 days.

(My 11 friends...  Rushabh, Utsav, Shreyash, Milind, Siddharth, Nishant, Kushal, Chirag, Roank, Tej and  Nitin  ☺ )

Date :13th April, 2013

We hired 2 Innova for travelling. So we left from Noida around 5:10 am. Distance between Noida and Rishikesh is around 230 km , but due to traffic, single lane it took around 6 and half hour to reach Rishikesh. The hilly route of Rishikesh is  very beautiful. Holy river Ganga passing through lush green mountains. The view is really  fascinating for urbanite  like me. All of us had feeling like "ohh.. this is Heaven !! "

Our campsite was near Crossfire rapid, all covered with silver-white smooth sand at the bank of Ganga.
We went for River Rafting around 3:00 pm. 8 people and a guide, all with life jacket, helmet. First of all guide gave us general instructions then he taught us way of paddling etc. After that we experienced thrilling ride in  flow of Ganga...  experience in rapids was really heart throbbing... [Rapids: When a river meets a steep gradient the water velocity increases resulting in the formation of turbulent water zones called rapids. Rapids are classified in levels from I-VI depending on the turbulence and maneuvering required.]. Crossfire, Mickey mouse, Golf course, Roller coaster are name of some of the rapids that we enjoyed. It took around 3 hours for 15-16 km of River Rafting. Then we returned to our camp.

On the next day, i.e.14th April 2013, we enjoyed volley ball, plunging in River etc. After lunch it was time to experience real Counters-stike !! PAINTBALL. :) :)