Sun Koshi River Rafting

14 Days

Overview

Sun Kosi is one of the 10th best whitewater rafting rivers in the world. Big Volume River with some big rapids’ warm water, beautiful scenery, cultural interaction, and camping makes this a classic multi-day river trip. A great trip for intermediate and advanced kayakers. At its best in medium to high flows.

Sun Kosi means “River of Gold” – perhaps named after the gold that is sometimes panned from the river gravels; alternatively, it refers to the orange color of the water in the monsoon when it is thick with alluvial silt. The river rises near Tibet and is joined by Bhote Kosi just downstream from Barahabise. Kathmandu Adventure’s Sun Kosi river expedition starts at Dolalghat navigate some of the biggest and most challenging fun rapids, and finish our Sun Kosi river expedition at the Chatara, closer to Dharan city. WE paddle on the Sun Kosi River for about 270km 7 days in the high water in September, 8 to 9 days in October, and Nov – December it takes a minimum of 9-10 river days because of water flow and upstream head wind.

The Sun Kosi River flows near Kathmandu to eastern Nepal Nort -west to South – East leaving a huge fertile valley where people live and cultivate grow maze, rice, wheat, and many other crops. Sun Kosi River is one of Nepal’s whitewater rafting destinations many people have been paddling through this river since the early 70s – 80s. Sun Kosi watershed is mainly generated by Nepal’s Himalayan glacier and streams from Ganesh Himal east to Kanchenjunga mountains it has the biggest fresh water and glacier and big range in Nepal. It forms the watershed for most of eastern Nepal and gathering strength from tributaries draining the highest mountains in the world it emerges onto the northern plains of India where it joins the River Ganges to the Bay of Bengal.

Sun Kosi is a large volume river where most of the major rapids are formed by monsoon debris brought in by side streams and loose rock fall so the rapids change from year to year depending on the severity of the monsoon. One of the nice things about the Sun Kosi River is that, except for a few big rapids like Harkapur –II ( that can be walked around if wanted) rest of the rapids are runnable and fun and challenging. Kathmandu Adventure always proactively practices risk assessment & management we’ve our system, and our guides are always informed and transparent about the river and other subjective factors that can be unpleasant experiences for anybody. We do land scout rapids and discuss making appropriate decisions with our team & clients before we run them like; No Exit grade 3, Harkapur –II grade 4+/ 5, Jaws grade 4; Rhino Rock grade 4, and Big Dipper grade 3-4. Several rapids can flip your raft anytime anywhere some of the wire pools make your raft flip which is on the flat water section in between the jungle corridor and the waterfall beach.

During the low flows will be perfect for those who want to learn guidance and progression on Kayaking. Kathmandu Adventure organizes guide school/ kayaking learning opportunities for the adventure enthusiastic every year please contact us at info@kathmanduadventure.com.au for more details and dates.

Depending on your time and interest we can always run two extra days on the lower Tamor River which is a perfect little smaller-volume river with continuous class 3-4 rapids and some land scout rapids “Ashram” and take out the same place of sun Kosi river. Tamor River comes from Kanchenjunga mountain the world’s 3rd largest mountain.

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Sun Koshi River Rafting
24% Off
From $ 1,250 $ 950
/ Adult