1st Big Bike Trip - Himalaya's
 

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your time and responses, if you respond.

Myself and acouple of friends have been sucked into the idea of doing a trip to the Himalayas in June 2025.

We plan to arrive in Delhi on the 30th May, early in the morning and making our way up to Manali.

Intending then from the 1st June (ish) jumping on some hired bikes and heading off into the Himalayas for 5/6 days of riding.

This is the part where you guys come in with your experiences!

Where do we go?
Where do you recommend staying?
Places to see?
Places where you are good to go to but think could do with sometime to stop appreciate it rather than a quick stop?
Places to avoid?

All of us have experience riding for 10 plus years and some off road riding so any particular areas where you need to be an elite level off road rider to avoid?

We need to be back in Delhi for the 7th June to fly home.

Please feel free to spam the hell out of this chat with anything you guys think we need to plan for, any idea on daily budget for food / accommodation etc.

It all is very new to us but we are eager to get it all planned but also want the freedom of not putting any pressure on ourselves to hit certain deadlines.


Thanks.

I tried writing up a good response for you based on my own experience with the trip up there but it was too hard because you have so little time to ride.

How are you getting up to Manali? Flying? Riding? How long to get there?
Where are you flying into Delhi from (how jet-lagged will you be?)

If the dates and the amount of time you have is fixed, I'd say take a look at where some tour companies highlights are and decide on places that are a day or two ride from Manali based on your interests. There are plenty of interesting places and villages in Hamachal Predesh so you may just stick to that area.

It gets more complicated if you try to go north of Leh. You will need to rent different bikes in Leh because only bikes rented locally are allowed into the inner-line permitted area and you will need to spend a day getting the aforementioned permit in Leh.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

So far our attempts to plan are as follows..

Land in Delhi 01:00 am from the UK on the 28th May 2025, proceed to get a taxi or uber to New Delhi railway station to catch a train to Chandigarh Junction railway station and the proceed with a taxi / uber to Manali. A long days travelling.

29th May, Pick the hire bikes up and just spend a day getting the bikes ready, resting, sight seeing. Good evening meal and good nights sleep and set off early on the 30th May into the Himalayas.

Then from the 30th May to 4th June travelling on the bikes doing comfortable mileage and arriving back in Manali on the late afternoon / evening of the 4th June.

5th June, days travelling back to Delhi and then fly out to the UK on the 6th.

Its the 30th May - 4th June on the bikes we are struggling to decide where to go. I think the general consensus is Leh as we want to see Gata loops and More Plains.

We did think about seeing if we could stop for the night around an hour from Leh and then the next day traveling to Leh and spending a day around that area and then back to the previous nights accommodation and then the following morning proceeding back to Manali.

But any help or ideas would be gratefully received. We are here more for the experience rather than planning to push big mileage days.

Thanks