River rafting

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Now that the weather is getting slightly warmer, we're running into the last two months of the river rafting season. Delhi-based Aquaterra Adventures continues to offer its weekend river trips for those who want to shake the city dust out of their hair and become better acquainted with the Ganga.

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.