India Explored

You would have heard about of River Rafting, but how about some hover rafting? Hover rafting inolves cruising over the water using a hovercraft, a kind of a vehicle that can move on both air and water. It actually skims over the surface supported by a cushion of high pressure air ejected from the bottom. Rajiv Kotwal, an entrepreneur trained in managing hover crafts has now started a new service of rafting with hovercrafts in Jammu's Tawi River. This is a first of its kind facility in the country. The J&K government intends to introduce hover rafting facilities in Ladakh and Kashmir regions in future.

How would an experience of hover rafting be? It is too new a sport to say more about it, but my guess is that it should be more comfortable and less adventurous than a rafting trip. But it would definitely be a novel experience.

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