5100 KM
24 Nights 25 days
Srinagar/Kathmandu
RE Himalayan 450
79% Tarmac,
30% off roads
Experienced
USD 9000
Only once every year
2 countries,4 climatic zones, 1 mountain range.
The most epic tour of the Himalayas that no one is talking about.
The Kashmir to Kathmandu circuit was first romanticised during the Hippie trails but what it offers today is a motorcycle adventure of truly Himalayan proportions.
The weather makes this circuit feasible only for 1 brief period every year. You need to time the start of the tour, so that the high altitude passes of Ladakh and Spiti do not get snowed in, and yet, you time it late enough that you don’t encounter the monsoon in Uttrakhand and Nepal.
We are the only company in the world that offers this tour and we only run 1 edition every year.
If you like this idea of long days in the saddle, with breathtaking mountain vistas and a landscape that changes and leaves you spellbound -every single day, the you are in the right place.
The terrain is rugged, the weather merciless (biting cold on some days, blistering heat on others and the ever present possibilities of snow or rain) and the riding can be quite tough- but the reward is massive.
Traversing the longest mountain range in the world is the best motorcycling adventure you could ever dream of.
Please get in touch with us if you are interested in the tour, send us some details about your motorcycling experience and our tour lead will get in touch with you with more information about the tour.
We start the tour in the capital city of Srinagar, experiencing the timeless hospitality and food of this troubled land.
It’s a soft start because the Himalayas are benevolent at this altitude and the start of the ride could be a little misleading, because of the beauty we are surrounded by. We traverse into the Greater Himalayas and it’s desert scape quite suddenly and the next few days unfold as we ride through remote valleys, crossing humongous glaciers, stunning stretches of tarmac and some epic off roads. We traverse the first 5000 M+ high altitude pass.
Leh is the staging point of this leg of our journey as we cross into Nubra valley, the high altitude lake of Pangong, the highest motorable road at Umling La. The most stunning bits of Ladakh (also quite touristy) are covered in this leg, but we tend to do it a little differently.
Leg 3 sees us start on the legendary Leh- Manali highway as we cross 5 passes, the edge of the Tibetean plateau and descend into the fertile valley of Lahaul. We continue onwards into high altitude territory as we cross Kunzum La and enter Kaza,Tabo, Cheecham and Nako. High altitude villages, narrow mountain trails and stunning views complete this leg in the alpine landscape of the lower Himalayas.
We now travel into the spiritual heartland of Hinduism, some of the most important places of worship and pilgrimage lie within this region. These are the Himalayas of Ruskin Bond and Rudyard Kipling, many of their stories taking place in this Himalayan state. We avoid the new highways and take older trails towards Nanda Devi base camp and our attempt at crossing into Nepal.
The final leg of our epic adventure could also be the most challenging because it’s just after the monsoons. Landslides, washed off roads and remote villages with very little infrastructure are the start point of our entry into Nepal. These are some of the remotest parts of Nepal and anything can happen. Closer to Dhorpatan (Nepals only hunting reserve) a semblance of normalcy returns and we finish our adventure with some well earned RnR in Pokhara and Kathmandu.
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