Treasures of the Himalaya

Wel­come to Nepal!  We will meet you at the Trib­hu­van Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and trans­fer you over to our pic­turesque hotel in Nagarkot, locat­ed about 1.5 hours out­side of Kath­man­du City. We’ll build our bikes in the evening and get to meet our fel­low trav­ellers over some local beer.

Note: We rec­om­mend rid­ers trav­el­ling from any­where out­side of Asia to arrive in Nepal a day or two ear­ly to allow your body to adjust and to ensure you leave some time for any delayed bag­gages / flights. For rid­ers arriv­ing ear­ly, Hotel Ambas­sador is our rec­om­mend­ed hotel in Kath­man­du, and also the meet­ing point on Day 1.

Impor­tant: Our van leaves Kath­man­du at mid-day, so rid­ers should either get on flights land­ing before 12 PM, or arrive a day prior.

After catch­ing up on some need­ed rest after the long flights, we’ll have a relaxed break­fast and pre-trip meeting.

We will start the ride by climb­ing towards the sum­mit of Nagarkot Hill — one of the high­est points in the Kath­man­du Val­ley. From there, we’ll descend to Nala on a fast and flowy for­est trail los­ing about 2,000 feet in elevation.

At the end of the descent, we will be trans­ferred to lunch back at our accom­mo­da­tion before ven­tur­ing out for some more trail fun in the afternoon.

Today we’ll ride on a wide array of vil­lage trails, cross­ing through wood­ed forests and rice pad­dies and end­ing in the walled-city of Bhak­ta­pur (lit­er­al trans­la­tion: city of devo­tees), a medieval town where we’ll find more tem­ples than houses.

A local guide will give us a tour of this breath­tak­ing World Her­itage Site, allow­ing us to explore the beau­ti­ful palaces and tem­ples before enjoy­ing din­ner at a tra­di­tion­al pago­da style restaurant.

We’ll set off ear­ly morn­ing to Kathmandu’s air­port to catch our plane to Pokhara. After the 30-minute flight, we will trans­fer over to our hotel in the Lake­side dis­trict of Pokhara.

While the bikes are being trans­ferred to Mus­tang, you can explore the area as you wish for the rest of the after­noon; you can plan an excur­sion to the near­by hills, go for a ped­al-boat ride on Fewa Lake, get a bird’s eye view of the beau­ti­ful lake city and the gor­geous Mac­cha­puchare moun­tain on a paraglid­er, or sim­ply relax at the hotel while enjoy­ing a well-deserved massage. 

Rise and shine for anoth­er ear­ly morn­ing flight, albeit an incred­i­bly spec­tac­u­lar one. The 20-minute flight from Jom­som is one of the most breath­tak­ing flights in the world, and will take us straight into the heart of the Mus­tang Val­ley — deep in the Himalayas — as we spot the 7th and 10th high­est peaks in the world on either side.

Once we arrive in Jom­som, we’ll unpack our bikes and start rid­ing towards Kag­beni, an ancient vil­lage on the banks of the Kali Gan­da­ki river.

A mas­sive day with over 6,000 feet of descend­ing awaits. We’ll ride along the Muk­ti­nath ridge and climb towards the scenic Lupra Pass before fol­low­ing a trail down towards the vil­lage of Lupra, rid­ing over nar­row and tech­ni­cal singletrack.

Once we arrive in Lupra, we’ll con­tin­ue descend­ing down the Pan­da Kho­la to head back to Kag­beni for lunch. Post-lunch, we will shut­tle back to Muk­ti­nath and climb up to Lupra pass a sec­ond time, to ride anoth­er amaz­ing fast descent down to the Kali Gan­da­ki Valley. 

Today, we’ll reach the high­est point of our entire trip — a mon­strous ele­va­tion of 4,300 meters above sea level.

The air will get thin­ner and the trail will get steep­er as we shut­tle to the holy town of Muk­ti­nath where the bike ascent begins. 

It will be a chal­leng­ing day, but we’ll be reward­ed with a 5,000 feet descent through flowy, high Himalayan land­scape,  breath­tak­ing views and no short­age of pic­ture-per­fect vistas.

Today may be our most epic day yet. We’ll descend from the high alti­tudes of Mus­tang to the pine forests of Kalopani fol­low­ing the old trail along the riv­er, all the while star­ing up at the two 8000 meter peaks of Anna­pur­na and Dhaulagiri.

Anoth­er day of diver­si­ty as we descend from the alpine Kalopani vil­lage to the sub­trop­ic jun­gles of Tatopani on a 15 mile descent.

A quick lunch break at Tatopani, and we’ll con­tin­ue rid­ing towards Beni where our van to Pokhara awaits.

After a leisure­ly break­fast at our hotel in Pokhara, we’ll shut­tle up to the World Peace Pago­da to ride a quick but fun for­est descent fin­ish­ing at our lake­side lunch restaurant.

After break­fast, we’ll make our way to the air­port, catch our return flight to Kath­man­du air­port and shut­tle to our hotel.

The rest of the after­noon will be spent explor­ing and indulging once more in this far­away land and cul­ture. We will con­verge in the evening for a cel­e­bra­to­ry din­ner to mark the end of our epic journey.

We’ll have shut­tles depart­ing all day to take you back to Kath­man­du for your flight home.