Day 1: |
Arrival
Arrival in Kathmandu, transfer
to a hotel. |
Day 2: |
Kathmandu to Pokhara by air
Drive to domestic airport and
fly to Pokhara. Overnight in a
hotel.
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Day 3: |
Bike up to Sarangkot which is
about 15 km from the lakeside,
mostly on paved road and about
10 km off-road towards Naudanda
and hit again on paved road with
less traffic mostly downhill via
Hemja. Bike back to the Hotel. |
Day 4: |
On this day we bike through the
main town Mahendrapul and turn
right on off-road after crossing
the British Gorkha's Camp, which
is mostly mixed trail with
unless 2 or 3 short carry up and
down about 10min. in between
Ghachok and Lhachok after
crossing Bhurjung Khola and back
again on Tarmac road to Hemja
(Tibetan Refugee Camp). Awesome
mountain views on this trail as
Annapurna South and Fishtail. |
Day 5: |
Today's almost 10% off-road
biking through Davis Fall and
cross the river. About 7km Jeep
track up towards Kristi Danda.
Enjoy the spectacular mountain
views of Dhaulagiri, Nilgiri,
Annapurna and the majestic
Fishtail mountain. We turn
towards Nirmal Pokhari on
fantastic off-road with single
trail down to the Seti River and
slowly head back to hotel |
Day 6: |
From the hotel we bike along the
highway to Tansen and Butwal. We
cross right to the off-road
climbing approx. 3 km on Jeep
track that goes as far as 12km
from the main road and nice
single trail will began with
technical down and ups through
Biswa Shanti Stupa (World Peace
Pagoda) to the dam side. |
Day 7: |
Today we bike 10km to the
Pokhara - Kathmandu Highway and
then turn left to Begnas Lake.
After lunch steep climbing about
6km off-road up to Kalikasthan
(15-20minute carry up) then 7 km
wide Jeep track down to
Bijayapur Khola and continue on
biking on highway and back to
the hotel. |
Day 8: |
Ride up to Harpani and back to
the hotel via same way. Biking
almost attached with Fewa Lake
on your left. Bike back to the
hotel. |
Day 9: |
Today we ride from hotel towards
Begnas via main road. We bike to
Talbesi across the Sundari Danda
from where we can see both Rupa
and Begnas lakes on right and
left respectively. From here we
climb steep uphill about 2 km
with altitude gain of 100m and
again we have uphill of 2km with
dense forest and we reached to
Saure Bhanjyang where jeep track
ended and we take steep downhill
walking trail washed by monsoon
rain but rideable on dry season.
We will bike via Baguwa village
to Karpurtar through beautiful
rice fields where the
intersection of three roads, one
goes to Besisahar, one goes to
Sundari Bazar and one goes to
Damauli (Karpurtar to Damauli
38km). We ride towards Damauli
via suspension bridge on Madhi
and Mitini Khola and stay in
Damauli in a hotel. |
Day 10: |
Today we ride to Ghansi Kuwa
(Grass cutter built well). From
here we take a left on the dirt
red mud trail and climb to
Ramjung Ki Vardan (5km with 310m
altitude gain); an old Rama
temple over there. Then we ride
through single trek via Tanahu
Gaon and forest and reach Mel
Danda from where we can see
towering Fishtail mountain.
After 1.5 hrs uphill and
downhill riding we reach
Chainpur Maibahal and take a
rest for half an hour and head
towards Dumre. Overnight in a
hotel. |
Day 11: |
Today we ride up and down of
12km and reach Turture and cross
Marshyangdi river and we reach
to the deserted airport and ride
uphill and downhill to the
Luitel village, a remote village
from where we can see Fishtail
mountain and Ganesh Himal. Then
we descend down to the Daraundi
Khola and after crossing the
river we reach Chepetar. From
here it takes us 1hour to get
into the main Gorkha road called
13km point and then we ride to
the Gorkha palace. We ride
around historical Durbar Square
of Gorkha. Later our support
vehicle will pick us up for our
return journey to Kathmandu.
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