Oonagh and Steve recently headed to Arunachal Pradesh for their very own Indian adventure. Oonagh set us through an account of their trip.

"Our adventure to Arunchal Pradesh in the far North East of India started 15km from the Chinese Tibetan border where we encountered a few problems getting our permits which add some (Indian) spice to the beginning of the trip!

It took us five days to get to our destination from the UK, travelling on planes, ferries (well it floated) and 4x4's.

One of the highlights was white water rafting down the Brahmaputra river which crosses several countries. The upper part of this river is called the Siang and has only been run 8 times due to it's trecherous conditions. Even the Indian Army think 'you'll die' on some sections of the rapids and watched us from afar on the cliff.
Though other rivers around the world are the same grade the remoteness and the water volume make this part of the river one of the biggest in the world with rapids of grade IV+ with some of the standing waves reaching heights of 30ft. 

We continued our high adventure wild camping each night at the side of the river. A few other highlights of the trip included:

 - Eating live beetles which Steve did not like due to the fact the legs were still lingering in his teeth 2 days later.

 - I was sold for 3500 mice which is apparently a very good price, possibly due to the fact that the sight of a white female was such a scare occurance that I seemed to cause a stir in most of the places we travelled through.

 - Lots or rum which is apparently a popular drink in India and boy can they put it away. They did find me a bottle of malt whisky for my bithday which was very considerate considering where we were.

 - Rain and of course the sun.

The sand did seem to get everywhere - and I mean everywhere - think about it - we'd be up at 6am and be on the river for a paddle till 11am for lunch. Then more paddling - with the sun beating down - the river is Himilaya melt so didn't feel too stifling. We usually stopped at 2pm to set up camp and dry everything out as fast as possible due to the fact that the sun would go down at 3:30ish along with the temperature and it would usually start raining. 
If you hadn't managed to dry your wetsuit in time then you'd be stuck with pants full of wet sand for the next day!

Incredibly the Indian people were some of the nicest people I've ever met.

We had a fair few adventures along the way -One night we got stuck on a sandbank and needed rescuing, we went to a temple in construction which is very rare, so got to wander through it and talk to the monks.

The Delhi traffic was an experience in itself - the car horns are still ringing in my head!

The whole trip was brill - fantastic - wonderful - literally out of this world! 
And an added bonus was that we actually got back in one piece - and you've only heard half of the stories."

You can check out more of Oonagh and Steve's pics on Flickr