Canoeing and Kayaking in India

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Canoeing & Kayaking in India offers a relaxing outing, with good opportunities to experience its scenic beauty. The main purpose for the use of canoes and kayaks has shifted from survival to recreation. Kayaking is just like backpacking on an off beaten path, except that this time your adventure is on the sea. While canoeing presents quiet a unique combination of exploration.

Canoes and kayaks are constructed to cut through water. They are tapered at both ends, which also ensures that they can be easily maneuvered. This makes them highly efficient on most kinds of water bodies. Canoes can accommodate two people with their gear. Canoeing is usually practiced on lakes and rivers, appropriately called flat water and white water canoeing respectively. Kayaks are made to accommodate one or two people depending on their size. Kayaking can be flat water or white water. Even, sea kayaking is globally picking up as an adventure sport, and is a great way to marvel at the coastal terrain.

Canoeing & Kayaking Tips
Canoeing & Kayaking requires to sit for long periods of time and repeat the same shoulder-strengthening motion, therefore it is essential to learn to steer and paddle simultaneously and in sync with your partner. Everyone can learn how to paddle, but not everyone can learn to paddle well, thus watch the way your wrist and arm moves the blade of the paddle.

In beach sports like Kayaking and Canoeing a lot depends on the weather and water level of the sea. So even if the Indian coastline gives you plenty of water sport option, do not forget in your thrill to seek adventure that the India coast is also quiet known for its unpredictable surprises. The basic requirements include a swimsuit and towel, Sunglasses, hat and sun block, a warm top, some spare clothes for change, a bottle of water, and an enthusiasm to seek great adventure on the sea.

Canoeing & Kayaking Sites In India
Uttaranchal
Check out the state of Uttaranchal where whitewater canoeing can be combined with moderate hiking and a naturalist holiday in the forest. For whitewater kayaking, the suitable areas are Rishikesh, Dakpathar and the Ramganga in Corbett National Park. For the ones who seek a little more adventure, kayaking can be a good option. The degree of difficulty while Kayaking would depend on the river gradient and its rapids.

Jammu & Kashmir
Organized by the J&K Kayaking and Canoeing Association in collaboration of the J&K Sports Council and the Departments of Youth Services and Sports and Tourism, this event takes place in Srinagar and works as a platform for the popularizing water sports athletics. The winners of the tournaments are then selected as contestants for the National Kayaking and Canoeing tournament.

White water canoeing has extensive possibilities. Lidder, Sindh, Drass, Suru, Indus, Zanskar, Chenab and for the less adventurous, even the Jhelum river can present interesting trips. The time to raft is either in May/June or in September/October. Equipment is available with some local agents.

Darjeeling
White Water Rafting and Canoeing are Adventure Hill Sports, which are relatively new in the Darjeeling Hills having introduced in 1991. Since then these sports have gained tremendous popularity compelling DGHC Tourism to take up the sport in a very big way. Graded on the international scale at Grade IV, the icy cold waters of the rugged Teesta with a series of rapids with varying intensity and character, extend a challenging invitation to one of the finest rafting stretches in the world. The turbulent waters of the Rangeet with its multidimensional rapids provide rafters with a variation meant for professionals.

Canoeing & Kayaking Places :
» Lake Paradise, Nanital
» Mumbai
» Dal Lake, Srinagar
» Nagin Lake, Srinagar
» Manasbal Lake, Srinagar