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Gathering
strength from tributaries draining the highest mountains in the
world the white water on the Sun Koshi is Biblical, even
expedition-size rafts disappear into the vastness of crashing
waves and rolling, boiling water.
After the monsoon the river is high and wild, and definitely not
for the faint-hearted. Whipped foamy white where narrow gorges
constrict the river's flow the cataracts are long and powerful.
The warm waters of the Sun Koshi surge, snake and wind for 270 km
to the east of Nepal.
While the lower sections of large volume rivers are usually
rather flat, the Sun Koshi reserves some of its biggest and best
rapids for the last days. At the right flow it's an incredible
combination of white water, scenery, villages, and truly quiet
and introspective evenings on huge sandy beaches along what many
people consider to be one of the world's 10 classic river
journeys. |
