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The Brahmaputra
enters India in the far eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh
after traveling hundreds of miles across Tibet as the Tsangpo
from its birthplace near the holy lake of Mansarovar. It is
one of the world's largest, on a scale with the Indus,
Mississippi, and the Nile.
One of the great rivers of Asia, the Brahmaputra commences its
3,000-km journey to the Bay of Bengal from the slopes of
Kailash in western Tibet. As Tibet's great river, the Tsangpo,
transverses east across the high-altitude Tibetan plateau
north of the Great Himalayan Range, carving out myriad
channels and sandbanks on its way. As it tumbles from the
Himalayan heights towards the plains of the subcontinent it
twists back on itself, cutting a deep and still unnavigated
gorge, until finally turning south it emerges in Arunachal
Pradesh as the Dihong. Just beyond Pasighat, it meets the
Dibang and Lohit where it finally becomes the Brahmaputra.
It runs through dense forests and tribal settlements. Our
rafting trip starts in a place called Tuting, so remote that
we have to reach there via helicopter ride! A seldom-run
river, the Brahmputra offers beautiful scenery, excellent
big white water and great wild life in a less-visited corner
of the sub-continent. After having big fun and adventure, we
finish our rafting at Passighat. The Brahamputra has its
source at holy Mount Kailash Mansarover in Tibet, traverses
the entire Tibetan plateau, and then makes its great bend into
India, cutting into the Himalaya the deepest gorge in the
world, a canyon which has as yet eluded all attempts at
exploration.
The various adventurous sports held in the Bharmaputra river
has helped the India's poor high-end adventure reputation to
be changed. The experienced crew of rafters and kayakers have
put together a rafting expedition down the mighty Brahmaputra.
aimed at putting India on the international white water map
180-km stretch of the Brahmaputra will mark the first
non-military expedition on the river and the first commercial
foray in the politically sensitive region.
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