The river does
the talking.
Rishikesh is where most people in India go for their first white water, and the town will happily sell you all of it at once. It is worth knowing what you are choosing between: nine kilometres and thirty-six kilometres are not the same afternoon, and an 83-metre jump and a 219-metre one are not the same day. Everything below is something we run or take people to, described the way we would describe it to a friend.
Everything, and the number that matters
Rafting — Brahmapuri
In your trip9 km · Grade II · About an hour
Rafting — Shivpuri
In your trip16 km · Grade III · Two to two and a half hours
Rafting — Marine Drive
On request26 km · Grade III · Three hours or so
Rafting — Kaudiyala
On request36 km · Grade IV · Most of a day
The Devprayag expedition
On request70 km · Grade II–IV · Three days, two nights camping
Bungee — Mohan Chatti
On request83 metres · Half a day
Bungee — Devprayag
On request219 metres · A whole day, three hours each way
Giant swing & flying fox
On requestSame site as the 83 m jump · Half a day
“In your trip” means already paid for and already planned — no second booking, no separate ticket. “On request” means we arrange it for you and tell you what it costs before you commit to anything. Nothing here is charged to you without you seeing the number first. There is more than this on the list further down, including the jumps and swings we do not have our own measurements for.
Adventure in Rishikesh, item by item.
No extra booking, no separate ticket. Your host has it in hand before you land.
White Water Rafting
Take on the rapids of the Ganga with experienced, safety-first guides. Cold spray, big laughs, and the best kind of adrenaline.
Everything else Rishikesh does.
None of these are inside a trip, and we are not going to pretend they are. Tell us which one and your dates, and we come back with whether it is running and what it costs — before you owe anything.
Bungee jumping, 83 metres
Half a day
India's best-known jump, on a cantilever arm out over the gorge near Mohan Chatti. About three seconds of falling.
Ask about thisBungee jumping, 219 metres
A whole day — three hours each way
The highest in India, at Devprayag, above the point where the Ganga becomes the Ganga. Long enough on the way down to have a second thought.
Ask about thisGiant swing
Half a day
A free fall into a long arc across the gorge, at the same site as the 83-metre jump. Most people find it more frightening than the jump and easier to say yes to.
Ask about thisFlying fox
Half a day
A long, fast zip across the valley. The one for somebody in the group who wants the view without the drop.
Ask about thisRafting, 26 km from Marine Drive
Three hours or so
Grade III. For people who have rafted before and want the bigger water without losing the whole day.
Ask about thisRafting, 36 km from Kaudiyala
Most of a day
Grade IV, the hardest rapids on this river. Confident swimmers only.
Ask about thisThe three-day rafting expedition
Three days, two nights
Seventy kilometres of the Ganga, Devprayag down to Rishikesh, camping on the sand at Kaudiyala and Shivpuri. Twenty-odd rapids, Grade II to IV. Closed through the monsoon and needs arranging well ahead.
Ask about thisSCAD jump
Half a day
A free fall with no cord at all. You are released, and a net catches you. Nothing to pull you back, which is the entire point of it.
Ask about thisReverse bungee
Under an hour
The opposite of a jump — you are launched upward from the ground rather than dropped from a tower.
Ask about thisRope bungee
Half a day
A rope swing from the tower instead of a bungee cord. Less rebound, more arc, and a gentler way in for anybody unsure about the jump.
Ask about thisFree-style bungee
Half a day
The same tower, except you choose how you leave the platform rather than stepping off forwards.
Ask about thisSky cycling
Under an hour
Pedalling a bicycle along a cable, well above the ground, with nothing under the wheels.
Ask about thisWe do not run these ourselves — we arrange them with operators we already use, on a day built around them. If something is closed, out of season or we would not put you on it, we say so instead of taking the booking. Ask us anything — a person answers, usually within the hour.
Worth knowing before you book
The river closes, and nobody tells you
July to mid-September is monsoon — higher water, real landslide risk on the hill roads, and rafting typically pauses. If those are your only dates we will say so before you book flights, not after you arrive. September to November is the strongest run of the year: the water is full and clean, the hills are at their greenest and the forest waterfalls run hardest.
What is checked, and who should sit it out
Your host asks how you feel about open water and whether anyone in your group needs a gentler run, then matches you to an operator whose current safety checks and river read we already trust. The bungee sites run their own age and weight limits; they are checked at the platform and they are not negotiable — confirm them before you build a day around one. Skip the jumps entirely if you have heart, blood pressure, back or neck concerns, or if you are pregnant.
Written by someone who lives here.
No hype and no invented numbers — including the parts that talk you out of something.
Everything we sell with this in it
Trips that already include this.
Packages and retreats both. Somebody local takes you to it and handles the rest of the day around it — no separate booking, no second payment.
Most trips weave through all five.
- SpiritualSpiritual Rishikesh: Aarti & Temples
- WellnessYoga & Wellness in Rishikesh
- NatureWaterfalls & Sunrises Near Rishikesh
- LifestyleRishikesh Cafés, Markets & Music