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Shopping for Water in a Spiritual Supermarket

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Us loaded up at the De-N-Ascents shop with Zed, Liquid Logic and Wave Sport kayaks with good decks and Werner paddles I have been drifting back into white water kayaking for the last few months.  I am not sure why I haven't done more but it has been hard to maintain skills to a level that allows you to paddle most Indian rivers comfortably. The Ganga valley Brendon and I had been so focused on trying to get out sea kayking that we hadn't research the white water options. A couple of runs on the Kundalika, a river south of Mumbai, reignited the flame and soon we were looking for some more opportunities. Ashram central at Laxman Jhula near Rishikesh After some research we decided on Rishikesh as a location for getting on some slightly harder big volume white water.  Rishikesh is one of the holiest places in India and is the epicenter for yoga and associated spiritual practices and and is set on the banks of the Ganges, or