Kali River Rafting November 17- November 20 2006

Hi Guys,

This is about an adventurous River rafting and canoyning we had in Kali River Dandeli on 17-20th Nov 2006.

We Seven (Vaibhav, Anees, Bala, Shailesh, David, Rizvi, Ravi) started our journey at 02:00 AM 18th Morning from Bangalore, we hit the chitradurga road and started flying in our New, DVD enabled quails. We prepared a check list last evening, so most of us were packed with everything we required for the trip.

T-Shirt & Short (non cotton) (for rafting)
Belted Sandal
Cap
Swimming Goggles
Towel
Torch
Bed Sheet
Camera
Tooth Paste / Brush
Soap
ODOMOS
Water bottle
First Aid Kit
Extra pair of socks, Clothes
3000RS - 4000Rs Cash
DVD / MP3 / Movies (We got a DVD player in our vehicle guys)
Swimming Costume

It’s a water adventure so we were suggested to carry water proof camera, But unfortunately none of us had that and later we missed that a lot… Well may be next time we will have a Waterproof camera to capture the real time memories of rafting.

We reached at a Tea shop at around 06:00 AM in morning, That was the first stop we had, All of us had Tea and started for the trip again, Being unknown to the roads, we preferred to take the shortest map route, Bangalore – Tumkur – chitradurga – Sirsa – Yelapur – Dandeli

Later we realized the roads were not really good and it is going to take 3-4 extra hours on road, which was the sad moment for us…

We reached a village Maligad and had our Breakfast (poori , Idli), It was around 10:00 AM by now, We were ready to hit the road again, After a long 5 hours journey we reached Dandeli at around 03:30 PM. We had to meet Mr Immam, The resort guy there. We all were tired by this time and wanted a heavy Lunch and a nice bath, Fortunately we found a Hotel “Hotel new Aditya” It was a nice restaurant with all nice Fish and Chicken items, After filling our Stomach we meet Immam and reached to our next destination Stenlie’s resort, It was a river side resort with a open Kitchen a Service apartment and a big river side area, What else we wanted that time, We all changed to our swimming Dress and went to River, by the time we came out of river it was 06:30 PM, We came to the room and changed for Camp fire, The Resort was equipped with Barbie Q and Camp fire facilities also, We Went to the Dinning Area which was in a River Side, Open with 7 Chairs and 7 Tan Sofa’s. This was the time to enjoy the beauty and atmosphere; we all had Well prepared Barbie-Q vegetable and Chicken, It was a time to Dance with a Hip Hop Music, After 1 hours of Dance, We Hungry people headed for Dinner, It was Rice, Dal and Mix Vegetable, Again Nice food, After our dinner we walked a bit in near by area and headed to our River side Tents, These were small tents, Covered but very close to river, We had 4 tents for 7 of us, SO we one of them managed to stay alone in tent, We were planned to trek early morning, But none of us got up on time, It was 07:30 when alarm buzzed and we all got up, We were ready for a day adventure, We started with River bath, and then a breakfast. We had to start our River rafting by 10:00 AM and we were on time, Excited and ready for show, we meet our Guide Alp there, Alp is from London and into training for River rafting and other water sports from last 10 years, We all got safety jackets and helmet, There was another group of 6 people (3 gals and 3 guys) in other boat, Alp taught us how to swim, Dive, Hold the raft, And how to save ourselves and others, After our first training session, we were ready to hit our first Water ramp which was around 1.5 meter high, It was suppose to be the most fast ramp, We all helped Alp to drive the boat faster, It was a fun and we all had a hit with a stone, But All Fine!!! The next Ramp was a bit tricky one, where the boat used to go front and then suddenly rotate 90 degree, and then back to normal, We had 9 ramps all with different specialty, We had few swimming session in middle of water, But the most fun was last Ramp, Where we tried rafting opposite to water, We tried it 3 times and every time we used to feel that our boat will fall off, True it was a real fun, We were back to land after 3 hours of rafting at 01:00 PM, We got ready and went for a light food which was apples, Orange and Sapota, After our lunch we headed to our canoyning session, Which was inside jungle, We had around 1 KM of trekking to reach the waterfall, It was around 20 meter mountain rampling, We had to be in water which was slippery and wet stones, We heard there is a Cave in waterfall and we all wanted to explore it, But only 2 of us got to see the Cave in Water, It was a tough canoyning session, and we all were happy to reach down Alive, I thanks Paul, Our guide for rampling for teaching us to be safe, It was the end of the day and almost 06:30 PM we were out of jungle, We headed to our resort, got our vehicle and went directly for Dinner, By 09:00 PM we left Dandeli to Bangalore, But this time we took Dharwad route, This was a better route then what we took for coming to Dandeli, After 2 or 3 breaks we reached Bangalore early morning 07:00 AM, We all were tired but happy to had a great last 2 days, We all said Bye to each other and headed to our home.