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Phoenix Canoe Club Expedition Part 5
Posted: Monday 31st May 2010
We arrived early in the morning at Delhi Station and forged through the throngs of people and smells to get on our waiting coach. Sharon left us at this point as she had extended her journey to go and meet some old VSO friends down south. The coach continued the journey down to Agra, stopping for breakfast on the way. We transferre...
Phoenix Canoe Club Expedition Part 4
Posted: Tuesday 18th May 2010
More death defying driving took us through open countryside and small towns and villages. We dropped off Johann and Caleb at Kathgodam on the way, who were catching a train back to Delhi and then flying home to the UK and US. We arrived in a muddy lay-by in the dark and decanted from the 4x4’s into some open top jeeps to ferry us up to Camp Fo...
Phoenix Canoe Club Expedition Part 3
Posted: Wednesday 07th April 2010
We set off at about 11.30am for the longest day on the river with a warm up on some grade 2 rapids. These didn’t last for long and we were soon running into the grade 3 confluence of the Kali and Kali Ganga rivers. This was our first big hit and after discussing the line to take through the rapids, we very quickly seemed to be doing something completely different. Our group were not...
Phoenix Canoe Club Expedition Part 2
Posted: Tuesday 16th March 2010
We arrived at Kathgodam station at 4.20am and decanted onto two small coaches with our luggage stacked on top. The coaches set off with Indian music blaring and flashing lights dancing around a religious statue above the drivers head. Everyone managed to get some more sleep as the coaches wound their way up the narrow mountain roads. After a stop for breakfast, we were soon getting glimpses of...
Phoenix Canoe Club Expedition Part 1
Posted: Thursday 04th March 2010
After eighteen months of planning and training 37 expedition members were queuing up at Heathrow complete with luggage, 30 kayaks, 4 packs of paddles, 2 expensive video camera’s and 5 extra suitcases packed with new clothes, shoes, toys, school equipment and footballs for the 3 community projects we were supporting.
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