.This two day drive along the siang takes us through unseen Adi villages, their settlements, extremely remote valleys , lush green tropical rainforests.

This will be the second day of driving along the Siang river. We reach our destination by evening, a lovely but basic rest house nestled atop a village in the Siang valley awaits our tired bodies and curious souls

Purung lies in the upper siang taluk of Arunachal. As we drive further in to the valley passing the village of Ramsing we try and get a glimpse of the rapids , locally referred as Moing Madness, Hairy Hari.

A few more passes and bends we descend to Pango and climb up to Ningguing village that descends to our camp at Purung. Camp next to the Ningguing rapid.

This is a relaxed day, we sort our gear – walk around and interface with local tribes at the nearby Jedu village, time permitting.

Ready rafts in the afternoon – a comprehensive safety briefing followed by instruction on paddling commands , rescue procedures, basics of rafting, kayaking.

We raft to Pango (5 hrs).

This morning, we set off on our journey down the river. We encounter the big monster Class V Ningguing rapid and another Class 4+ rapid, Pulsating Palsi to reach Pango,where we set up Camp for the night. Lovely float sections as one takes in the wonders of the Ningguing gorge.

Today, we enter the Marmong gorge, the only way to visit this gorge is by raft.

We scout and raft down the Pango rapid and run three big rapids in the gorge, and our paddling skills are well utilized on this day. It has steep impenetrable forests rising into oblivion on each side past the big rapid at Rikor and Zebra Rock rapid to set up Camp above a Class 6 rapid “Tooth fairy” at Cherring.

After a possible portage around the Class six rapid, Toothfairy, we raft out of the Marmong gorge negotiating several Class 3+ rapids including the Class 4 Hairy Hari, followed by a float till Ramsing where we make Camp for the night.

Today we break our journey. This is the 8th day since we started this journey. By now we are all meshed up and soaking through and through with adrenalin and adventure.

We would have navigated class 6- class 3 rapids , capmed at inaccessible gorges and set up camps. We deserve a day off

Good bye Paradise , hello Geku!

We begin with a big rapid below Paradise beach, called ‘Moing Madness” followed by milder ones all the way till the suspension bridge at Nubo. We raft down Karko village and float to a beautiful site near Geku.

After Geku, we begin a long float till the 65 Bridge at Ditte Dime. An easy day with long float sections. We pass several Adi tribal settlements on the way and float past the confluence of the Siang river with the Siyom river after the suspension bridge at Boling. We pass the flood-rutted guesthouse of Yembung and float onto camp near Rotung village, in time for hot lunch.

We begin the final run to the plains at Pasighat by negotiating the last biggie on the trip at Ponging. The Siang seems to gather a lot more volume as we float into Pasighat where we beach our rafts for the last time on this trip. Transfer to rest house at Pasighat.

This is the end of our journey. We drive to Dibrugarh from Pasighat. Hope you loved yur adventure. Look forward to hosting you on your next!