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This is the longest
river trip offered in Nepal, traversing
270 km through the beautiful Mahabharat
Range on its meandering way from the put
in at Dolalghat to the take out at
Chatara, far down on the Gangetic Plain.
It is quite an experience to begin a
river trip just 3-hours out of
Kathmandu, barely 60-km from the Tibet
border, and end the trip looking down
the hot, dusty gun barrel of the North
Indian Plain just a week later.
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The Sun Koshi starts off fairly relaxed, with class II
and small class III rapids to warm up on during the
first couple of days. Savvy guides will take this
opportunity to get the teams to work with exquisite
precision, as on the third day the rapids become more
powerful and frequent, with high water trips finding
themselves astonished at just how big a wave in a river
can get. While the lower sections of large volume rivers
are usually rather flat, the Sun Koshi reserves some of
its biggest and best rapids for the last days. At the
right flow it is an incredible combination of powerful
whitewater, stunning scenery, villages, and truly quiet
and introspective evenings along what many people
consider to be one of the world's ten classic river
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