Sun Kosi – “ The River of Gold”

Another of Nepal’s holy rivers, The Sunkosi is also known as the River of Gold and derivers her name form the goddess Kaushiki. This virgin goddess created peace on the earth then after doing so took the form of the river we all know as the Sunkoshi. We hope that you will find your own personal peace on this magic river journey.
This river begins its journey slowly allowing the rafter or kayaker to gain a feel for its ways. As the river progresses through fantastic scenery and quite villages, where you can experience Nepal’s lush culture. Its intensity picks up and boast some of the biggest waves seen on raft-able rivers in the entire world. This trip is listed as one of the world’s top ten classic river journeys and if you have the time and want to experience the real Nepal, it’s certainly a trip worth considering for not only rafters, but intermediate to experienced kayakers as well.

Rafting

The Sun Kosi is a superb river for rafting, with a few easy days warm up before entering the bigger rapids. It’s a good solid rafting trip for all levels of rafter and one of the best long river trips for rafting in the world.

Kayaking

Kayaking on this river can be done by the intermediate to the advanced kayaker. The rapids are big and bouncy and make for a great fun kayaking trip with plenty of surfing waves and lots of kayak friendly holes to play in.

River Itinerary

DAY 01: Grab some fresh Bakery goods hot out of the oven for our 3 to 4 hour bus drive along the friendship highway to Dolaghat. The road takes us high above the river with awesome views of the Himalaya along the way. We take some lunch on the river bank in the bustling town and set up the rafts. We head to the river for a gentle afternoon of rafting and a nice introduction to the rafting gang to get our coordination and team work up to scratch for the days to come.
DAY 02-08: Before us we have 270km of blissfully traffic free river to ourselves with plenty of world class rapids to keep us on the edge of our seats. The river carries us along at a nice pace through huge holes, rapids and past massive boulders in the river. At night times we will camp out on the lush white beaches where we can unwind after a hard days paddling. The course of the Sun Koshi offers up some world renowned rapids, such as Harkapur 2, Dead Mans Eddy and Jaws. Further down the river joins with the white flowing Dhud Koshi which has tumbled its way down form Everest, the water gets noticeably colder as well. The 7 km of river called the Jungle Corridor looms up to us after this meeting of rivers. It’s a wild wild rapid ride through a steep sided jungled canyon from one pounding rapid to the next, that’s going to get your heart racing.
DAY 09: Just when you think it’s all over, the last big rapid of this trip is called The Big Dipper, after which the river lets up, we all let out a sigh of relief and make our take out near where the Sun Koshi joins with the Tamur and the Arun Rivers. It’s a short drive and flight back to Kathmandu where we can all have a hot shower, let down our hair and celebrate our amazing trip on one of the world’s best white water rafting rivers.

Sunkosi Rafting and
Kayaking

Departure: 20th September, 2nd and 11th October and 5th November or On request

Min group size: 6 paddlers

Kayakers are more than welcome
to join rafting trips.

Contact us to join on this wild
rafting expedition

If you are an independant traveler but want a helping hand, we can loan you one of our very experienced kayak guides. No more fighting for taxis, trying to figure out wher to put in and where to camp. We know these rivers, we know the language and can make your trip run more smoothly !