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ITINERARY OF TAMUR RIVER OF 12 DAYS TRIP
Day 1/3:
We arranged bus from Kathmandu to Dharan, that’ll take us about 12 hours to reach. Stay at an advance booked hotel for the night. The next day is long journey to Basantapur at about 4pm stay at lodge & preparation of packing for three days trek through Gupha Pokhari & get to Doban. This’ll be the end of the trek.
Day 4:
Starting point of Raft:
Kabeli Dovan after a good ‘break-fast’ we’ll launch our rafts at the spot just below the bridge at about 9am as a float down river for a hundred yards or so we encounter rapids which will give hints for more of it the whole day & throughout the trip, but we’ll hang-on & continue on. The first phase is quite a rough rapids & duddn drops when ‘hang-on’ will be in the air now & again that’s how we’ll go on till we come to the confluence of s small tributary to Tamur Khola called Kabeli Khola. It has quite an extensive beach, to reveal it can be mean during the high monsoon time.
It is a place where people hold Puja (fasting prayer) once in a while in the name of Lord Shiva at the far bank where there is still a temple that will be frequently visited by the sages or fakirs. And just close by there is few helpers in a small hamlet that is used by both the travelers & pilgrims. And we choose the best spot close by to camp for the night & rest at about 4pm late afternoon. The Tamur Khola does hold a good number of delicious fishes as the Silver trout, Katala, Eel & others also. so we carry line hooks that can be well of an opportunity too. Whilst member wander around the area the crew staff will start preparing snacks tea/coffee first on the river & later in the evening at about 7pm server the dinner starting with soup & other main course items.
Day 5:
The river channel is quite narrow through till we pass Chuhandanrha which includes a few sudden drops, & slowly the height drops along with the fast moving current frequency to reveal the second day full of whit water rapids. The technical obstacles bar us too often that we’ll be doing a lot of scouting before hand, running through the rapids the life vests ought to be really tight & secured all the day long for there are so many quick turns hardly to give us a chance to fiddle around with the jackets, so its better to have it on all throughout the day. We’ll be having lunch on the way when it suits us but later in the late afternoon, we’ll come into a calmer section to relax a while, then to the stop for the night, at a well-expended beach.
Day 6:
There’ll be more water volume & the tempo continues at the same current frequency, encountering rapids rating 5 to 6 according to the Colorado river scale (1 being the easiest & 10 the most difficult rapid). At most of the bends the currents will mislead us a lot but our co-ordination counts a lot. Later in the late afternoon we stop at Ratte-Matte where the vast expended rice field is visible around the surrounding area, a green scenery landscape.
Day 7:
The river course remains the same as quoted by the famous poet Lord Tennyson ”Man may come & Man go but I go on forever” which in sense its rapids, back slapping waters, holes drop, whirlpools & tricky eddies, but the same current will be helping us a lot all along. It is mainly a suspnsion bridge sign, that we have to be aware of , to prepare for a high drop-holes a yards ahead to encounter, then a calm section follows for a relax moment after the “Bingo”. After a couple of hours later we come to Batase for the night stop.
Day 8:
Burman people who make larger ethnic group called Kirantis. It was the Kiranti King who ruled the Kathmandu valley until the 2nd century A.D. Among the Limbus some held the belief the milky way is the seletion of the Sapta Koshi, tonight we camp near the confluence of the other main rivers of the Sapta Koshi river system, the Arun and the Tamur is called Tribenighat Kartike.
Day 9:
The day breaks with wildlife cry at far distant corner, with full of dense primary jungle which are at present being under distruction owing to hill people encroachment for search of virgin cultivating area. It is still in one piece but unpredicatable, not for long. I persume. There will be continuos rapids to-day and we could make stops at places to walk about to scout before shooting through and later at length we will be camping at Kampu Ghat on an expanded beach for the night.
Day 10:
The routinal break down of camping will be as orderly to the usual tempo but we will only forth after good breakfast. Once again the river stretch will take us on its steady frequency and eventually stop at Rai Ghat situated just close by the other main tributary rivers called Arun river and Tamur river. This will be properly called Sapta Koshi (meaning the main confluence of seven main rivers to in one largest stream in the South-East Nepal).
Day 11:
Below Tribenighat we’ll stop at Barahchhetra a famous Hindu temple during the full moon in January, thousands of Hindus meet at the temple to worship legend has it that a Demon god used to inhabitant the area, he had special power granted to him by the higher god, preventing any moral from killing him because this Demon god was nuisance to the holy men and pilgrims who came to the temple to pray. Vishnu descended from heaven and took the shape of a pig a terrible battle had taken place to which the Demon god was killed, so each year thousands of pilgrims come to celebrate the death of the Demon god by Lord Vishnu in the form of Barah-the pig.” Our trip eventually takes us through all the way down river into the Mirga Kunjh wildlife reserve and later camp at a selected greenery camping spot for the night. Since it is to be the last and final river camping night. We will arrange for a party to make it a memorable night of this trip.
Day 12:
Today, being the last river rafting day, there will be a late bed-tea and the breakfast follows at ease, neverthless in view to the river-ride, we shall arrange for wildlife viewing float at “Quiet-space” to watch the Arna (Water Buffalo) in wild, Mass Mugger Crocodile and uncountable varieties of ducks, geese and bush warblers enroute. This is properly known as Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve and the best Reserve to watch the maximum number of water birds and the near extinct wild water buffalo “Arna” and some times the commom crance along with saras crane in their migratory flight from India. The lunch will be served enroute at a well selected spot with the better view to watch them at close quarer. And eventually we will be completing over 12 days rafting at the very embankment of the Koshi Barrage where the coach will be waiting for the next continual journey beach to Kathmandu of 12 hours drive. And we will be in Kathmandu on the 13th day at about 9 a.m. at our respective hotel for a proper rest and relief from the Sun Koshi River trip with full-fresh trip memory.
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