River rafting
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| You can choose from the 2 day/1 night package (Rs 3,500), for which you would arrive on the Saturday and begin rafting at once, or the more popular option, to arrive on the Friday night for the 2 day/2 night camp (Rs 4,000), so you can get a good night's sleep before all the rafting begins. |
| The more adventurous of you can even take the 3 day/2 night option (Rs 4,600), or, if you've got a long weekend over Easter for example, the 5-day trip on the Alaknanda. |
| All these packages include other activities as well, such as kayaking, rock-climbing and sailing. |
| Make it before mid-April though, because then it will be too hot and the camps will move further up the mountains and into north-east Uttaranchal, into the Tons valley. |
| Salsa festival |
| For those of you not willing to trudge all the way to Rishikesh, there are some novel activities to be taken advantage of in the city as well. |
| Kaytee Namgyal, the founder and director of Salsa India Dance Company, the biggest salsa school in India, is holding a salsa festival that starts in New Delhi from the middle of March. |
| There will be salsa championships for beginners as well as intermediates, workshops with internationally renowned instructors, and performances at the end of it all. |
| The qualifying rounds start in the middle of March, so there's still time to squeeze in some salsa lessons before you try your hand at the Championship! |
| The beginners' category is for those who have been dancing for not more than four months; the intermediate for those who have been dancing for between four to eight months; and the advanced for those who have been dancing for more than eight months. |
| The winner of the Championship gets a free trip to Goa, and the festival also includes three days of partying and performances at the Maurya Sheraton in New Delhi. |