Tamor River Expedition

Your trip begins from Airport, is small and cozy! Arrived in immigration be ready to issue your visa (for visa apply you need 2 Passport size pictures and change cash dollar $40.00/smaller bills). After you get visa walk to the baggage claim and to the arrival its very short distance. When you arrive arrival our company @kathmanduadventure representative display board with your name at the guest pick up area, and transfer to the hotel, we brief you about your trip to the hotel.

Tour begins at 8:30 am ready for the day, sightseeing starts with Soyamvunath, Basantapur Durbar Square, Boudhanath Stupa & Pashupatinath temple these are world heritage sights and preserved from UNESCO. We spent about 1 hour each place so we have enough time to get explore the historical places, it will be hustle bustle while you walking around the sites.

The longest and exotic adventure day of the trip: we catch the first fight and fly to Biratnagar 45 minutes with trip leader rest of our river crew they left the night before and waiting for the group at the airport at Biratnagar. After load vehicle starts our 2nd part of the adventure journey which driving beautiful Mountains road to Basantapur. We will stop a few times include Dharan for lunch and snacks or personal care. Journey to Basantapur is beautiful we won’t get bored either get sleep drive through small villages, agriculture sites, terraces and also cross Tamor Riveron the way up to Hile, we stay at the Basantapur in the local hotel and eat local Nepali food Rice Lentil, mixed veg classic Nepalese food.

Early morning breakfast (we guide and prepared all the meals) your trip leader will be very busy to short it out porter and other gear loads for the next 4 days for the trek; we start our trekking around 9:30 AM to 10 AM and reached the camp around 2 PM to 3 PM with few stops for lunch and view point walk, it’s beautiful and easy walk with gradual ascent you won’t even gaining any elevation; High lights of the day: Rhododendrons forest/trees, villages/carrying their daily stuff on their back alpines trees, meadows birds and flower(spring is better for flowering) and we sharing trail with locals, mules/donkey and other, and camp on the open ground.

One the best trekking day; you will come to see Mt Makalu Himal, Kanchenjunga mountains range, and hike through the dense rhododendron forest and moss trees with the mind-blowing beautiful view of the foothills. We stop at the Mangalbare have lunch and interact with villagers and school students and continue our journey to Gupha Pokhari and stay near the Holy Lake Gupha Pokhari (lakes like cave hard to noticed) Its also very popular place for people live in Taplejung and Sankhuwashawa district and local people trade Yak milk product and handicrafts they also make dry cheese which is famous in eastern part of Nepal it’s call Chhurpi.

The 3rd day of trekking on the foothills in the Himalaya and also beautiful ridge walk from Ghupha Pokhari to Gorja and gorgeous downhill walk through the black Cardamom field/ terraces and Tamur River flows on our right side and hearing some river rushing sounds from distance, we came cross one village Dovan, but we camp another side of Dovan village.

Once we get there we start preparing our rafting expedition, pumping rafts and rigs rafts for the gear load for next day. Our guide will be busy and want to set up rafts and organize gear rest of the expedition from trekking to Rafting. If we get in the time otherwise we will prep our river expedition next.

Day hikes to the canyon and explores the village, or just hang out at the camp and chill out/prep for the expedition. In the Rafting expedition we won’t bring an extra person for cooking our guides/ trainee guides they are well trained set up camp and cook and serve meals to our guest each and every day, it would be great if you could give hands to set up camp and small chores at the camp, teamwork.

Tamor river known as a big volume technical river class IV – V rapids have more gradient then other commercial rivers in Nepal. After breakfast and safety talk river briefing we start our expedition around 10:30 AM before we lunch we encourage our guest to swim on class II-II water at the starting point with back up rescue support above and below. This activity gives ideas of water and force and our safety system. Within 5 minutes we have few class IV rapids, we always stop and scout and make plan A & B and run rafts with setting up downstream safety/ kayaker. We scout few more rapid after and before the lunch and Camp just below Kabeli Khola Confluence.

Our normal schedule wakeup and hot drinks at 7am after breakfast we start to pack up and load our oar rafts and put on the water not later than 10 am, today we stop twice to land scout first one is just below our camp confluence rapid of Kabeli Khola and the second one just before lunch and rest of the rapids are read and run, which means scout the whitewater as we paddle with good distance and keep eye each other, we start looking campsites around 3 pm and camp not later than 4 pm.

River start gets little slower but still, lots of rapids pull and drops, most of the rapids last two days quite continued, its beautiful rafting and side canyon and waterfalls, terraces and mountain slop settlements. We carry our lunch on the oar raft and stop for the lunch between 11:30 AM to 12noon for one hour and enjoy the after meals next to the river. Normally we start looking for the campsite around 3:30 Pm and camp not later 4 PM (often we experienced afternoon headwind its better idea start early and camp early

We start little earlier because today we have most of the water is flat and headwinds during the afternoon, we also have some decent rapids/land scouts and the beautiful view of a mountain, looking for the camp around 3 PM and camp not later than 4 PM.

River gets even much slower, and flat, we start little earlier so don’t need to fight with afternoon headwind. During the rafting, we will pass through beautiful landscape terraces and canyon. Better day for try kayaking for beginners, today we reached the Mulghat which is a quite big village and camp closer to the village.

Rest day at the Mulghat explore the local village visit temples and complete rest for the big day.

Rafting Mulghat to confluence and camp at the confluence. Its about 35 Km and have 50 rapids with some of the major/biggest rapid entire section of Tamur expedition; i.e. Aasharm, Canon Ball and other continue rapids all the way to Sunkoshi River. And camp at the confluence and explore the village and celebrate the success.

The last day of the Tamur Expedition rafting actually this is now than river known as Saptakoshi the complete seven river. The biggest river in Nepal and she collect one-third of Nepal’s Himalayan glacier water to the Ganges. We stop at the Baraha temple (Hindu Temple) popular destination for the Hindu pilgrimages in different time of the year and good view from the temple is amazing of Sunkoshi river.

Soon after we reached dissemble/unpack and load vehicle and drive 5 minutes to the Chatara town for the lunch, after Lunch 3 hours drive you to Biratnagar fly to Kathmandu and transfer to the hotel.

Explore local market shopping and Our guide will arrive in Kathmandu this morning at 6 PM evening get together for the farewell dinner at Thamel celebrate the dinner with our crew and share the experiences of the expedition.