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2024 LCC River Karnali Trip (Nepal) – Day 8 – Camp before Seti-Karnali Paddling Day 5

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2024 LCC River Karnali Trip – Nepal

Day 8 – Camp before Seti-Karnali Paddling Day 5

This morning at breakfast we found a very large fish in the bucket that had previously been occupied by the eel – tonight’s dinner? Except that Govi, Calu and Dipesh left early with a gear raft and a kayak to go to a village downstream to try to obtain a pig for dinner. Yes, a pig.

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So, after a lazy morning, we were on the water but with a few changes as today’s was to be an easy paddle. With Calu and Dipesh gone ahead, Norris was paddling the raft.

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One of the other kayakers had an inflatable packraft with him which he chose to paddle for the rest of the trip so Colin finally had the chance to kayak. Another had a go at paddling the gear raft with Jange, so Jackie (one of the Canadians) had a go at paddling his kayak. This meant the raft was down from 8 paddlers to 5.

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It was therefore a slow and relaxed paddle for us kayakers (although with the odd swim for the new kayakers) but quite a tough day’s paddling for the rafters.

We paddled/floated for 3 hours before stopping for lunch and after lunch another hour and a half.

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We arrived at camp only a few minutes after Govi, Calu and Dipesh who had hiked up into the hills to a couple of villages in search of a pig, which they had successfully obtained.

The pig was barbecued for dinner that evening and we enjoyed BBQ ribs, BBQ diced pork and some most delicious masala pork… yum!

We never saw the fish from breakfast again so I reckon it was traded for the pig.

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