Our river guide MIM (I think that’s how it’s spelt) was very good, he took us and 5 other poor soles to the SETI RIVER, we were going to do the Upper part of the SETI, along with 3 safety rowers who were to be in front of us in their one person kayak, when we got to the location on the river where we were going to launch the boat from MIM gave us a safety brief and whilst he was doing that, even though I had been rafting twice before I was actually thinking, ‘do I really want to do this?’ the river was flowing pretty well as it had just recently been having a lot of rain in POKHARA and with the snow coming in off the mountains, it was quite high, nonetheless, Charlie, me and the 5 others that came along (3 British girls and 2 foreign speaking people) donned our life jackets and helmets, picked up our oars and got into the raft where MIM placed us, poor Charlie who hasn’t done this before was stuck at the front with another raft guide so he would see everything coming first, that’s if we had the boat facing the right way down the river. After a couple of practise strokes in the calm part of the river MIM decided we were ready and pushed off, this was it, we were on our way and no turning back.
There was one part where we actually got stuck for a minute on a rock, but the river eventually pushed us off the rock for us to carry on our way, I must admit, the first wave of water that came over the boat was flipping freezing, but after that you didn’t really feel the cold of the water as the adrenalin that was pumping around you was keeping you from feeling the cold.
After a few near misses and flips we managed to get back to where the vehicle had been taken too for our landing area to get the boat out of the river, the guide MIM had a camera strapped to his helmet, but unfortunately there was a problem that we were to find out later on so we were not able to purchase a DVD of our time going down the SETI RIVER, so that really leaves one alternative; we will just have to go and do it all over again.
Our last evening meal was to be at the POKHARA STEAK HOUSE, purely because we were recommended this place by BK because of one of the steaks, now to be honest I wished I had taken my camera out for that evening meal because this steak which actually melted in your mouth so you didn’t have to chew much was actually meant for 3 people to share, it was actually about a foot in length, me and Charlie couldn’t believe it when we saw it, it was massive, but needless to say we had a go and between the 2 of us we managed to polish it off including the vegetables and chips that came with it. I shall have to get a picture next time I go back.
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