Koudiyala- If you wanna challenge "The Wall"
Grade – III-IV
Distance – 36km
Duration –7 hours
Timings- 8:00 am
Season- march- June & Sep- Nov
Cost – Rs 1600 per person
Age – Minimum 14 years
Koudiyala is known as upper section of the river, it has two big rapids up stream Marine drive and rest of the stretch is the same.
This trip we start early at 8:00 am from our base, we get change and drive to put in, after floating an hour we reach to the The wall and we stop above the rapid for a quick scout and set up the rescue kayaks at the bottom then we run down, its a potential flipper rapid but very safe to flip because the flipper hole is in the end of the rapid and a long flat section makes safety kayaker's job very easy to collect all the swimmers. We keep floating down the river and later around mid day we make a lunch break and enjoy the meal from the famous restaurant Chotiwala in Rishikesh. After a long day on the river we reach to the final point NIM beach and drive to base 5 minutes, then you get changed and drive back to hotel.
Here we will focus on more difficult waters as well as some rivers I have discovered and paddled myself.