Our planned 2000 km-long canoe ride has brought us half way, to the old great river-port of Patna. We've journeyed down the Mahakali-Sharda down to its confluence with the Karnali-Ghaghra, and from there to down beyond the great confuences with the Ganga and the Sone, and are at the confluence with the Gandak river. It has been 42 days on the river already as I sit down to write this update, and it has been one terrific ride. Our gross estimate while planning was that we would take about 45 days to complete our entire journey to the sea, but we are only about half-way yet.
Two big reasons for this:
On average we have got about 4 to 6 hours of paddling until sundown, every day. These conditions have determined our speed of movement along the river, and we know better now.
The next part of our journey is to start from Tanakpur till where I had traveled on different trips, from tributaries in the mountian reaches of the Mahakali river and her tributaries in India and Nepal. Stay tuned.