What is better than swirling on the roaring rapids of a river? If you are an adventurer and a water lover, imagine how much fun learning rafting will be? An activity is a onetime experience, but when you undergo a course, that offers all the basics and learning of a rafting like swimming in rapids, learning the techniques, understanding river hazards, practicing with rescue bags, training for raft flips and more, you experience the real adventure. Isn't it interesting?

Nestled on the bank of Ganga River, Rishikesh resides on the foothills of Himalayas, offering travelers majestic sceneries. This exhilarating adventure over miles of tumultuous rapids ad unbridled water, river rafting in Rishikesh has gained a lot of popularity over the years. People from India and around the globe come to this place to enjoy the Ganga and also to meditate as the city is renowned as a center for studying yoga and meditation. .

If you are looking for river rafting in India, look no further than Rishikesh as this places houses mountains, River Ganges, diverse flora and fauna, moreover it is an amazing rejuvenation destination from the mundane life. River Rafting Course in Rishikesh is the best course if you are looking to learn rafting. A week training, and you will be a certified trainer, after which you will be able to train adventurers who are in a lookout for some thrill.

ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrival at Dehradun / Haridwar.
Today after you arrive in Dehradun or Haridwar, you will be meet and greet the SLA representative. You will be transferred to camp, and on reaching check-in and settle your luggage. Later, get ready and move out to understand raft guiding theory. Today the course details will be shared, you will know your trainers, listen to the briefings carefully, and then after you are done for the first day, head back to your camp.

Day 2: Equipment and Gear fitting. Safety briefing. First river trip. Swimming in rapids and Eddys techniques. Understanding River Hazards.
As soon as the sun gilds over the skies, you will begin the second day of your training. Post breakfast, you will try all your equipment and gears required for rafting. Your trainer will guide you and brief you about all the do’s and don’ts of the activity. Make sure you abide by it, and try to follow it through the adventure course. Then, following all of this, you will be given certain safety briefing, post which you will go for your first river trip. You will taught techniques to swim in rapids to make you understand river hazards.

Day 3:  Basic river skills. River trip. Practice signals on river. River flora and fauna.
Wake up to a beautiful sunrise, and then post breakfast, head out to begin the third day of this amazing adventure. Today you will first learn the basic river skills and then will head towards the river, where you will practice the mandatory signals that will help you at the time of emergency. There will be a safety kayaker around you to rescue you if any mishap takes place. Train your sights as you might even spot intriguing variety of flora and fauna.

Day 4: Basic river skills. River trip. Practice with rescue bags, navigating rapids, reading the river.
Post breakfast, today you will practice rafting with rescue bags/throw bags. This bag helps in rescuing a swimmer and also to unpin the boat. It’s bold and bright in color, so that when in need of emergency it must catch the eye in one look. You will be trained how to throw the bag, blow whistle before throwing, and more such knowledge will be given to you. You will be also trained how to navigate the rapids, how to row during those time. And the trainer will also brief you on how to read the river and its roaring flow. After all this, you can head back to your stay for some rest.

Day 5: Basic river skills. River trip. Practice with raft flips.
This day you will require to practice rafting with raft flips, for which you will have to train with the experts on how to unflip the boat when an accident takes place. For this, you need to listen the instructions carefully, and make sure you use them while you are training in the river. To unflip a raft is a bit tricky process, you will need all your team members as it is a group job. You will be trained for the entire process. After you perform today's activities, you will return back to your stay for an overnight rest.

Day 6: Equipment care and Raft repair. Raft building and guiding exercise. Celebration barbecue. Distribution of certificates.
After a scrumptious meal in the morning, it is time for you to learn raft repairing, raft building and guiding exercise. After this, your rafting course will come to an end, and you can return to your stay. Also, today certificates will be distributed according to your achievements. Later, a barbeque dinner for the celebration will be there. Enjoy your heart-out.

Day 7: After breakfast transfer to airport for flight out.
This morning, you will pack your bags, and then head out for breakfast. Then, you will depart for your return journey. You will be taken to the airport as per the schedule.