Activities

River Rafting

River rafting is one of the most adventurous, thrilling, and highly popular outdoor activities around the world. It is an outdoor activity in which the members navigate a river usually on rough and turbulent water. River rafting gives an amazingly thrilling experience and in this, the players deal with the risk and experience to overcome the fear. Rishikesh is a spiritual and adventure destination in India and it is the most popular place considered for river rafting. In Rishikesh, river rafting on the river Ganga will give you an amazing experience. To have a safe and adventurous river rafting experience you should choose a certified rafting operator and experts. For river rafting, you need to choose the rafting spot and grade from where you can start your rafting. Usually, rafting experts choose rafting spots according to their favorites and expertise.

Rafting Routes

Club House River Rafting: Brahampuri to Rishikesh NIM Beach (9 Kilometers)
Shivpuri River Rafting: Shivpuri to Rishikesh (16 Kilometers)
Marine Drive River Rafting: Marine Drive to Rishikesh (26 Kilometers)
Kaudiyala River Rafting: Kaudiyala to Rishikesh (35 Kilometers)

Paragliding

Paragliding is a sport of flying parachutes or Paragliders from a heightened slope of a mountain. A paraglider can last for approximately 2 to 3 hours or more in the air and can cover several kilometers in just a few hours of its journey and that too without an engine. It is one of the most adventurous & popular outdoor activities (Paragliders or Parachutes are made from a very strong material called Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene and therefore look slender but are very strong to hold hundreds of kilograms). Usually, a certified paragliding operator offers paragliding activities. Therefore, you don’t need to be a paragliding expert to have a thrilling paragliding experience. To have a safe and adventurous paragliding experience you should always choose a certified paragliding operator and expert assistant. In this process, the assistant expert paraglider will take you over a heightened slope with a parachute and both of you have to jump from a slope and navigates the sky using a parachute. The paragliding assistant will take you from the sky route and you can have the most adventurous and thrilling experience.

There are following launching pads for paragliding are mentioned below:
  • Kitty Hawk – 10 minutes to 12 minutes of flight
  • Explorer – 18 minutes to 22 minutes of flight
  • Valley Expedition – 30 minutes to 35 minutes of flight

Trekking

Trekking is an exciting outdoor activity of long walking. In trekking, the tracker covers a longer area via walking and enjoys the beautiful natural scenery while exploring it. Trekking can be done alone, with family, or with a group of friends or colleagues. Trekking is considered a very good natural activity for health improvement. Trekkers usually make an aim or commitment to cover a predetermined length of a particular area usually a mountain area. In Uttarakhand, trekking is organized in various parts but the most popular places are Rishikesh and Dehradun.

Type of trekking:
  • Teahouse Trekking – In this trekking, you take a rest, have refreshments, and also sleep during your trek.
  • Camping Trekking – In camping trekking offers dining tents, sleeping tents, and toilet tents therefore, you do need not to carry a lot of luggage with you but a small bag of essential things.
Around Rishikesh, the highly popular trekking routes include:
  • Chandrashila Trek
  • Dayara Bugyal Trek
  • Dodital – Yamunotri Trek
  • Source Of the Gangas Trek
  • Kuari Pass Trek
  • Tapovan Trek
  • Sahasra Tal Trek

Camping

In Camping, you spend your days and night away from your home usually on the hills, jungle, on the bank of a river, or in a temporary shelter. It is an outdoor adventurous activity in which you spend some days with limited resources such as living in a tent or a vehicle, eating limited food, etc. For camping, people usually choose natural areas which is much nearer to nature such as the jungle, hills, desert, bank of a river, etc.
In this era, when people are loaded with full of work pressure, tension, and depression, camping is one most effective activities to normalize it, and therefore, it is highly popular among the new generation. Camping in Jim Corbett National Park would be a thrilling and adventurous experience.

Bungee jumping

Bungee jumping is an outdoor adventurous activity. It is an activity where an individual jumps from a heightened place using a long, strong elastic cord with safety measurements. The Bungee jumping launching pad is usually established at a heightened place on a tall and strong structure such as the middle of a bridge; mountain cliff; a tall building etc.
In Bungee jumping, the jumper feels three kinds of thrilling experiences. Firstly, the jumper jumps using the elastic cord and the cord gets stretched which gives a free-falling experience. Secondly, after the free-falling experience, the jumper automatically flies upward due to the elastic cord recoiling. Thirdly, the up and down continues oscillation gives a relaxing experience.