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10 DAYS TRIP – SUN KOSHI RIVER
Day 1:
We leave KTM at about 7:30 a.m. & drive for three hours east to the Sun Koshi river, we travel on the Chinese built road that leads to KHASA. TIBET during the drive we’ll stop at Dhulikhel ½ hour to Dolalghat, that’ll be our put in point, for lunch we stop on sandy beach that flanks the river. In the afternoon we pas the small villages & within some further distance we’ll camp for the day at Timal Besi.
Day 2:
After breakfast we continue down the river slowly encountering the technical rapids at the base of a vertical wall called Kuhe Bhir, from this point there are small rapids our 2nd night will be spent just below the junction of the Roshi Khola, a small tributary of the Sun Koshi near the village of Dumja, here the valley is wide and flat, this’ll be the camp spot for the night.
Day 3:
The morning will be as usual, after breakfast we continue down river, after several hours run we stop at Thanga Khola, a beautiful Newari village a collection of white houses & grain fields. Some of the houses display intricate woodcarvings for which the Newars are famous. In the afternoon we pass the confluence of the Tama Koshi (copper river) in a wall above the river is a small temple inhabited by Rishi or hermit, a visit to this temple is interesting, later we set the camp near the village of Khurkot.
Day 4:
Today the canyon changes, the ridges begin to close and the vegetation becomes thicker. We float through an interesting geological area, and encounter a number a number of small & medium size rapids. This afternoon we’ll stop on a coach an ox-bow section of the river, we’ll have time to relax and explore, fish, swim, photograph or do whatever we prefer to do, we’ll camp at Likhu Khola.
Day 5:
Today we continue through a mass of interesting rock formations. To the observer they are a bewildering example of complex & dynamic forces. They may dynamic forces. They may see lifeless just as so many rocks, but the truth is they record history in motion. The white water picks up today near the village of Harkapur we run the largest rapid middle class of trip, later we’ll camp near theconfluence of Dudh Koshi, the Dudh Koshi flows from the Khumbhu Glaciers & Ice falls at the foot of Mt. Everest.
Day 6:
Below the Dudh Koshi the river widens and flows through a broad valley, fans of sand gravel spill into the river from side canyons. During the monsoon rain these become torrential streams. This area of Nepal receives most of its 170mm of rain in the summer months. Without this climatic cycle Nepal would be a desert and we will camp at Raj Ghat.
Day 7:
Today we enter typical vegetation, this river narrows into a group lines by thick forest broad leafed trees, ferns, mosses, bamboo and creepers along the river banks, when we stop rot lunch we can shower under a beautiful waterfall. It is a photographers paradise, the rest of the afternoon we meadnder through the gorge and enjoy the changing sceneries, tonight we camp on a broad beach by a waterfall, about four hundred feet in height.
Day 8:
Today we pass several important Ghats, they are major crossings from Terai to the mountans. The main trail connects the east-west highway, one-day walk from the Sunkoshi Bungshilaghat. We see more Limbus and Rais in this area. they are Tibeto-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 selection 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.
Day 9:
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 mortal 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.
Day 10:
We end our trip eventually and lunch at Chattara, in the mean time the crew dismantles the equipment, from here it is 45 minute drive through tall forest and open fields to Dharan and the same evening we’ll catch up the night coach to Kathmandu or fly back to Kathmandu from Biratnagar. We will arrive in Kathmandu by 9 a.m. on the 10th day of this trip the next following day.
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