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The India Kayak Road Trip - The Kopili

The India Kayak Road Trip - The Kopili

As river levels dropped in Meghalaya the boys finally made the long drive east, towards Assam. What they searched for had been on the bucket list since the start of the expedition and what they found was possibly the most fun river to date. Draining from a reservoir on the

The India Kayak Road Trip - The Umtrew

The India Kayak Road Trip - The Umtrew

As the monsoon drew to an end in Meghalaya, the team headed for another first descent. Plummeting north off the Shillong plateau, the Umtrew promised big, clean rapids in a remote jungle, and it absolutely delivered! A short drive from Shillong and we arrived at the entry point of the

The India Kayak Road Trip – The Sankh

The India Kayak Road Trip – The Sankh

The Sankh river in southern Jharkhand was the last river the group ran before leaving the Eastern States. The Sankh has drops between 20 and 30 meters every kilometer cutting through large granite slides and further drops in an area more akin to the high sierra than the plains of

The India Kayak Road Trip – The Phulbani

The India Kayak Road Trip – The Phulbani

Splashing rivers all over the country for almost four months now, Phulbani is probably the most epic river our kayakers have come across so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kDTJXGxn8Some river trips are good, others are great, and some you never forget. The first descent of the Phulbani

The India Kayak Road Trip: Paddling through Meghalaya

The India Kayak Road Trip: Paddling through Meghalaya

In their first month of paddling in Meghalaya the team found rivers too low, then too high and finally just right. Catching the right river level for a first descent is a tricky business; too high and things can get pretty spicy, too low and you're dragging your

The India Kayak Road Trip – West to East

The India Kayak Road Trip – West to East

Shibu tended to respond to most of our questions with the same reply: ‘Okay okay okay’. The reply was no different when we asked if he could drive for over 10 hours from Calicut to Bangalore with six kayaks. With that, a five day race from Kerala to the northeastern

The India Kayak Road Trip - About the paddlers

The India Kayak Road Trip - About the paddlers

Since you last heard from us, we've been clocking up the miles in the eastern states of India. We've kayaked fantastic new rivers in Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand and soon we'll begin the long drive to Meghalaya and beyond. But in all this excitement,