YES!!! YES!!! we made it!! Took us a test run just to learn where to go and how to get things done but we did it.
I guess all the whining paid off when a couple of guys in my office decided that they'd come along with me n Rads to Rishikesh and Haridwar. Nine of us were supposed to go but in the end there just the four of us.
Nothin like
*being sleep deprived and drinking beer at 7:00 am
*Watching the guys with us flinch and look at us accusingly when asked for their emergency contacts and made to sign a disclaimatory documents ( I swear they wanted to back out at that time).
* happily wading into the ganges with life jackets on and trying to swim in the ice cold water
*Jumping off the raft and floating beside it downstream.
*being told by the guide that the water is 60 feet deep!!!
*Floating on your back down the river
*swimming downstream and guiding the raft by pulling the string tied on ur hand.
*going thru rapids which almost toss one off the boat
*Then being told by the guide that there was a huge whirlpool there last week!!
*Paddling and listening to all the stories of the guide, brad Pitt had used his company when he came to india.
*Eating hot poori's, sabji and halwa at haridwar
*Watching the evening Aarthi there
*Being forced to listen to hindi songs which play only on road side tea shops.
* Getting so exhausted when we were back, that Rads missed her train cuz we overslept and the alarm was too tired to ring.
* Happily declaring that I've taken enough dips in the ganges for me n seven generations of my family.
SO check...everything was achieved in this trip. The rafting, the food, the fun!!
R&D do go rafting
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