A Rishikesh outfit, run by river people

Namo Gangay grew out of a group of guides who had already spent years rowing other people's rafts on the Ganga. We knew the good operators and the careless ones, and we wanted to run the kind of trip we would put our own families on.

Today we operate five rafting stretches between Kaudiyala and Rishikesh, plus a limited number of 70 km expeditions from Devprayag. Our base sits a short walk from the river in Tapovan, with changing rooms, gear stores and a courtyard where every trip starts with the same unhurried safety briefing.

We are small on purpose. Nobody here is trying to push four hundred people down the river on a Sunday. We would rather run fewer rafts, know every guest's name at the briefing, and have the whole team back at base before dark.