In October 2006, I traveled over to Nepal to hook up with some other Feed The Rat crew to do a bit of kayaking on a range of different rivers on all sides of the country. After missing my flight out of Australia I was pretty happy to get a fantastic view of some of the tallest mountains in the world just before l safely landed at Katmandu airport.

Nepal is an amazing country not only for its hills but also for its rivers and local people who are always friendly, sometimes even too friendly, ha. I had heard some great stories about some classic big volume rivers that Nepal had to offer so I was very keen to get on and enjoy some great paddling.

While there for a month I paddled a good handful of rivers both in the east and the west and sort of the north. Just to name a few classics like the Sun Kosi, Bhoti Kosi and the Tumar. All of the rivers in Nepal are very different as like any country.

But one thing’s for sure, you will never feel alone here even when floating down a river that’s seems miles from anywhere.Nepal is about the size of Victoria and has a population of around 26 million. So yeah, lots of people will be happy to give a paddler a push in off the bank.

For anyone that loves big volume water this is a great travel destination. It’s cheap for Australians and the water is pretty warm. I was there just after the monsoon season so there was enough water for all the rivers, if you want a lots water more then place yourself in the country in the wet season and I’m sure you will be surprised at the huge amounts of water flowing down a drain for the highest peaks.

Here are a few words from me after I just arrived:

“Hi all just thought that I would give you a bit of an up date since I’m near a computer place in Pokora.

I’ve been paddling some more and its fucking sweeeet. Lots of big water ay, I feel like an ant paddling them at times but it’s really good fun. We paddled the Trusuli which was like grade 3+ 4. Really nice area surrounded by big hills and jungle seen monkeys running around and everything. Today we are off to do the upper Seti (3 and 4); it’s more like a creek I guess.

Lots of drops and a fair bit more gradient so it will be steeper, whooo hooo!

Then tomorrow we are going to do the Kali Gandarki which is like a 3 day trip. It goes through one of the biggest gorges in the world. The water over here is really warm this time of the year which had me a little surprised but its good, shorts and a rashie with a shorty cag, awesome.

Just always kicking around in a pair of shorts. For all of you who are paddlers, you should get yourself over here because it’s well worth it. It’s cheap and the people and the paddling is top notch. I’m a bit over paddling the creek boat as its big yea, hard to play on the nice big waves and holes.

I got my first case of food poisoning the other day. FUCK ME I thought I was going to die, felt like I had been in a fight with 5 blokes who kicked the living shit out of me.

Bags not getting that again. I tried to send some pics of the rivers but having trouble compressing them here, takes years to do so. So you will have to wait.

Cheers hope you’re all well, the happy paddler Kyme”.