Google GRG Adventure Kayaking, Rafting, Kayaking and Canyoning Adventures in Nepal: May 2015

Friday 29 May 2015

Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence Award 2015

We are delighted to announce that GRG's has been awarded the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence Award for the 4th year in a row!!


It is a great achievement for us and we'd like to take the opportunity to our fantastic team of staff who make our trips possible and to all our awesome guests who took the time to review us on Trip Advisor. 



Sunday 10 May 2015

Want to Help Nepal? Come and Visit This Fall….




Come to Nepal this Fall. Raft, Bike, Trek, Relax, Explore and SPEND your money directly with the people who need it to rebuild their lives. Help Nepal by giving them their jobs back. Tourism is the way to rebuild this incredible country.

In the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Nepal on the 25th April 2015 many people are asking me, ‘how can we help Nepal’. My answer changes pretty much daily. To begin with the advice I was giving was to send your money – anything you ship over will take to long to get here and we needed immediate access to food, shelters, blankets, the list goes on. Then my answer was KEEP sending money (and this one still stands). Nepal is going to need a huge amount of money once the rebuild starts and my continuous answer is to help spread the word and keep Nepal in the media as much as you can.

If you ask me today what you can do to help, my answer is COME AND VISIT. I don’t mean now, I don’t even mean tomorrow, but come the fall, once the monsoon is over and the land has settled, Nepal will NEED your tourism now more than ever.

Anyone who has visited Nepal before will tell you how Nepali’s are the most generous and friendly people they have ever met, how the mountains are awe inspiring and how somehow, Nepal gets under everyones skin and once you have been here one time, you will be back before you know it. It is truly a very special country with so much to do and so much on offer.

Over 1 million foreigners travel to Nepal every year and without their valuable income, Nepal will find it hard to get back on it’s feet. Nepal Tourism accounts for hundreds of thousands of local jobs and a huge percentage of the countries national income.  From taxi drivers, hotel owners, bar staff, restaurants, rafting companies, trekking guides, tea house owners, porters, mountain biking companies, paragliders, bus companies, internal flights….the list goes on and on and on. All these people are currently out of work and can then not support their families, thus causing more undue hardship.

At the moment the media is (rightly so) focusing on all the destruction to the country, however, it is only certain areas, and most of the tourist destinations in the country are totally unaffected. I do not want to detract from the devastation that has happened, because it is bad, it is serious and it should not be taken lightly. But it is only in certain areas and most of these villages survive on money sent back by relatives working the cities, and if they have no work, the villages have no money to rebuild.

Thamel, the tourist district of Kathmandu has been relatively unaffected, as has Pokhara one of the main destinations on every ones hit lists when they travel to Nepal. Whilst the Langtang region has been harmed, many other trekking regions are unaffected and theses guides need employment. Annapurna, Mustang, Makalu, Kanchenjunga are all fine. For those interested in wildlife, Chitwan National Park and Bardia National Park are open and unaffected.

And from our personal point of view, the rivers are still flowing and screaming out for the rafters and kayakers to come back. The only rivers we will not commercially running at the moment are the Upper and LowerBhote Kosi and the Belephi, as although the river is fine, the areas surrounding it have been devastated.

Mohan Krishna Sapkota, spokesperson for Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation said “Our priority is to bring more tourists and provide them quality, safety, hospitality and other services to their satisfaction,” he says, expressing a desire to re-establish Nepal as a “safe, unique and attractive tourist destination.”


In a country where tourism is the largest domestic industry, what Nepal doesn't need is potential visitors to be scared off because of over exaggerated media. The whole of Kathmandu has not been flattened, I have seen for myself, it is only certain areas. If you love Nepal and want to see it rise once again, please help by giving donations to reliable organisations to assist the rebuild, but also come here on holiday yourself this Fall.

In the meantime, we as a company are focusing our efforts on rebuilding the homes of many of our staff members but we are OPEN FOR BUSINESS AS NORMAL. 

If you have any questions about certain areas of Nepal and whether they are safe to travel to or not, or you would like to enquire about travel here next season, please email us on info@grgadventurekayaking.com


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