River rafting at Kolad..Kundalika

date :  25th July 2010

This place was on the mind for quite sometime.. but dint get like minded people to do it..
finally my office team comes to the rescue and we decide a weekend to be spent at Kundalika..

Kolad is just 150kms from Mumbai on the NH17. Take a left at the board written Mulshi 78kms and you are on right track..
There are a lot of farm houses which can accommodate as well as make the arrangements for river rafting..
We had made prior booking through junglelore.net.
We had booked for a stay as well..
Accommodation was provided at Pooja Farm House which is around 8kms from the rafting site..



some clicks of the farm house..



tent which can house 10 people.. this is where we stayed..




They have built 2 Aqua cottages..








We were asked to be ready at 7.00am so that we could be the first at the rafting site.. and to my surprise everybody was ready at 6.45am..
We had an awesome breakfast of Kande-Pohe and bread-butter and left for the site..
Reached at the site in about 25mins and this is what we see




a few instructions later we were all set to go rafting..

thats our instructor..


he was our raft guide..


all set..


few more instructions..




incase of problem hold the life line and duck in the raft..


me on the left.. listening carefully..


finally we push the raft in the water..


still some instructions.. incase if you fall in water i will throw the rope and you have to catch the rope etc etc..


time to raft..






The rafting perse was OK.. we were told there would be atleast 10 rapids.. but 8 of them were like sitting in a small ride at an amusement park.. and 2 were really thrilling..

the best part of the ride was when we were told to jump into the calm waters and swim along the raft..

Finally were back at the farm house at around 12.00pm .. were served an amazing lunch ..
started for mumbai after some rest at around 3.30pm.. reached home at 8.00pm..

have a few macros clicked at the farm house..