river rafting vacation
Last week I went to Rishikesh with my friends for a river rafting vacation. It really was a great trip full of fun and adventure. It was Friday night; I came back from my office and saw my roommate helping our landlord. Our landlord and helper were about to start renovating our room as the walls and ceiling in the room really made my room gloomy and whitewashing our room was the only option left. I also joined them in keeping all things out of the room.
After an hour my cell phone rang and the call was from none other than one of my best friends. He was calling me because it was Friday night and he told me that he is coming to my room with his younger brother to enjoy the weekend. But I felt very sad because in our room there was no space to sit. I had no chance to think and after a few minutes they were there. We sat there for a few seconds, suddenly I asked them to move to another friend’s room. They agreed on that and in a few minutes we were there.
There were already a few friends who were waiting for us because one of them had taken a new car so he was going to party that night. Well the party started and someone among us asked to move for a river rafting trip to Rishikesh as the place is close to Delhi. They all agreed on that because we all love the adventurous life and adventure travel has become a way to spend the weekend. Our trip started around 10 pm and we had all the things like waterproof bags, extra clothes, waterproof camera, sneakers, t-shirt, shorts, sunscreen, sunglasses and some bears. We were all excited as this was our first river rafting vacation trip.
We reach Haridwar in the morning around 5 am and rest. After resting for a while we were able to continue sleeping since the environment outside was very pleasant and we couldn’t stand up inside the car. So we all went out together and saw the great river Ganges gently flowing there, we were really caught up in its beauty. Nobody could resist. The friendly atmosphere attracts many visitors and travelers and for the first time we saw the Greater Ganges area flooded with people. People enjoyed the morning walk, few bathed in the sacred river. It was really a very different morning full of fresh air, greenery, high hills and the air was filled with enthusiasm, new life, aroma of love and joy. After a short walk we start our journey towards Rishikesh again. We got there after 2 hours and hired a river rafting operator after having our breakfast.
They took us to that place from where we were going to start our rafting expedition; I forgot the name of the place which was about 15 km from Rishikesh. After we got there, we were given a rafting demonstration and started our first river rafting trip. We were all very excited. Our guide asked us to jump into the river because there was a gentle flow of water. So we all jumped into the river, the water was so cold we stayed inside until our guide asked us to get back on the raft.
After a few minutes, he ordered us to go back in the rafting boat because our first rape was coming up. So we went back to the rafting boat. And it was really fabulous when we were passing through that raped; there was so much water flow that we had to row very hard. Throughout this trip, we enjoyed this way every time a rape came, we would go back to the boat, otherwise we would stay swimming in the Ganges river. In the end we were so tired that we went back to our hotel rooms and enjoyed our lunch around 4:00 pm In the evening we went to the market and looked for a wine shop but there was no shop because that place is very spiritual . So we gave up our idea of drinking and had our dinner and visited many temples there and came back in the morning.