Neeeepal – Part one :o)

After all the flight arrangements were made, couple of meetings by few pints of beer were held and all the things were packed up to 30 kg weight limit(including boat, paddles and gear), our group took off for Nepal for one month. A bunch of guys and myself were heading to a beautiful country of the Himalayan mountain range and pretty wide spectrum of amazing wild rivers in the heart of jungles.


As the rest of the boys are still there in Nepal, its take some time but many more shots are coming. However, I ve managed to gain at least the first set (picts altogether out of three cameras) of an amazing pictures from our trip, soooo here we go;o)

Delhi airport transfer. We ve experienced some pretty desperate and too long moments sitting there with only one checked out boat, having no clue whatsoever where the other six and two large packs of paddles are. Luckily, all the naturally overloaded boats finally arrived and we could smoothly continue further to Kathmandu.

I was particularly stoked for the completely different culture and overall alien lifestyle which you experience out there..So I literally forced that bunch of lowbrows to explore at least some culture:o) The complex of the Pashupatinath temple, most important Hindu religious sight.

The Sadhus “holy men” called Shaivas for their dedication to Shiva, most significant Hindu god. Here waiting for an alms...

Preparations on put in on the Upper Sun Kosi, nice playful run with huge crazy waves..It takes some time to get used to the crowds of people just standing and staring like u were the best Tv show...

Jakub Sedivy in the rapids of the Bhote Kosi, guess its the scary “The Wall”.. We unfortunately caught the late monsoon, so the water levels were higher than usual in that season..Especially for me were some of the things surely in the category “not for me”, few even in the category “only for Jakub” - judging by my not solitary portages:oD

However the ones I did were mostly pretty huge... Was just paddling my best through those sparkly bubbles of massive waves and holes which pushed me somewhere deep together with my tiny cute Chico... I was really ecstatic when we finished the run (and also terribly exhausted:o)

How can the Nepalese and the European dresses match :o)

Incredibly cheap and incredibly uncomfortable. Despite that, rides on the bus roof racks are soooo exhilarating, you need to be well wedged in , so you don t catapult off when the bus swerves or lurches. You also need to be aware of the low-hanging wires and branches zooming over your head. Did I mentioned the fellow goat- travellers (literally!) and great views?

For Marsyandi river the Bassos joined our group and we made together with Michelle some pretty cute girls rides, getting caught by sticky holes, smashed by massive waves , but still smiling like the hell for the pictures:o) Almost our whole crew here on the pict .

Mark conducting me trough one of the wilder rapids...The only instruction: „You don t want on be on the left...“ Well, I rather was..but still, to get blasted by huuuge diagonal wasn t so bad as one would think, quite sensational feeling:o)

The second day of the Marsy was not only demanding but loong as well. We ve paddled till darkness first on a fancy whitewater, later on beautiful panoramic flow..I was still truly happy they provide the Chicos with soo comfy seats, like really, cant imagine sitting on something else practically for the whole day...

The Madi was other jolly good trip, amazing two days with an epic oversleep. The times by the warm, almost family fire were just good, but to bundle in a Nepalese storm and heavy heavy rain fully dressed in paddling gear were for most rather strong experience:o) Naturally, who would take a tent or a tarp on a multiday...

Moreover,you can meet fairly monstrous rapids there too! And I must admitt that I was really glad that „Chicky“(nick for my boat:o) was still behaving so well even stuffed with kilos and kilos of food, sleeping bags, mattresses and many more unnecessary rubbish. I felt just a little difference and was still gliding smoothly over the white wild rapids:o)

Here is just a little teaser for another stories from our awesome Annapurna trek and adventures from the Himalayan creek Modi.
Matěj and Vojta carrying the boats up and up and up...

Snižák in the rapids of Modi:o)

There are definitely more pictures coming, also a presentation of all the picts is being planned and we ve also made rather pretty shots for some video, sooooo stay tuned ;o)

Bety

Thanks for an amazing pictures to "© 2010 Pepicek" http://wwzeny.blogspot.com/ .