Himalayan Ride 2016 – Complete Itinerary

My first successfully completed very long ride, and it was to Himalayas! I was very sceptic about its completion right from the begining but fortunately everything went cool and I am back in one piece! Considering that 90 % of the ride was done in solo :)

Planned the trip in 5 stages, of which I cancelled stage 4 due to many reasons. The main stages, Stage 2 and 3 were completed, I am happy with that. I am listing the entire route details, I am not going to explain about the places/experiences and you won’t see the photos either, I’ll be covering them in different posts. This is just about the route(s) I’ve took.

Stage 1:

Bengaluru to Manali

Day	Date	From	To	Km Covered
1	31st Aug	Bengaluru	Hyderabad	570
2	1st Sep	Hyderabad	Narsinghpur	760
3	2nd Sep	Narsinghpur	Noida	775
4	3rd Sep	Noida	Agra –> Noida	466
5	4th Sep	Noida	Shimla	345
6	5th Sep	Shimla	Manali	250
6	5th Sep	Manali	Rohtang La –> Manali	102
7	6th Sep	Manali	Malana –> Kasol –> Manali	185

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Stage 2:

Manali to Leh/Ladakh and back

Day	Date	From	To	Km Covered
8	7th Sep	Manali	Jispa	140
9	8th Sep	Jispa	Leh	335
10	9th Sep	Leh	Leh (Buffer day)	-
11	10th Sep	Leh	Magnetic Hill –> Hall of Fame –> Shey –> Chuchat Yakma –> Leh	110
12	11th Sep	Leh	Khardung La –> Leh –> Spangmik (Pangong Tso)	250
13	12th Sep	Spangmik	Leh	156
14	13th Sep	Leh	Upshi –> Igoo –> Khaspang –> Upshi	77
15	14th Sep	Upshi	Sarchu	204
16	15th Sep	Sarchu	Manali	222
17	16th Sep	Manali	Manali (Buffer day)	-

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Stage 3:

Manali to Spiti Valley and Chandigarh

Day	Date	From	To	Km Covered
18	17th Sep	Manali	Batal	114
19	18th Sep	Batal	Chandra Taal –> Kaza	120
20	19th Sep	Kaza	Langza –> Hikkim –> Komic –> Demul –> Kaza	90
21	20th Sep	Kaza	Key –> Kibber –> Kaza –> Nako	152
22	21st Sep	Nako	Namgia –> Kalpa	125
23	22nd Sep	Kalpa	Karcham –> Sangla –> Kalpa	100
24	23rd Sep	Kalpa	Narkanda	190
25	24th Sep	Narkanda	Chandigarh	175

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Stage 4:

Cancelled

Planned either to Killar and Sach Pass or to Sikkim based on the resources available at the end of Stage 4, obviously Time and Money, I was short on both so cancelled it for some later time. Toomuch of mountains is again not recommended and I need an excuse to ride again to Himalayas :P

Stage 5:

Chandigarh to Bengaluru

I actually planned to take the return route via Kolkata along the east coast to Bengaluru via my hometown Tirupati, but due to rains and an additional km count (close to 1500 km) I cancelled that plan, well, mainly due to less days and money. I didn’t want to take the same route through which I started from Bengaluru either, so I took the below ones while keeping an eye on the rains. Fortunately it was a dry ride :)

Day	Date	From	To	Km Covered
25	24th Sep	Chandigarh	New Delhi	255
26	25th Sep	New Delhi	New Delhi (Buffer day)	-
27	26th Sep	New Delhi	Jaipur	275
28	27th Sep	Jaipur	Indore	640
29	28th Sep	Indore	Ahmednagar	490
30	29th Sep	Ahmednagar	Belgaum	430
31	30th Sep	Belgaum	Bengaluru	512

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That completes the route details, started this journey with 41,850 km reading in my odometer, ended it successfully with a reading of 51,272 km on Sept 30th night. That was a total of 9,422 kilometers of memorable and adventurous moments in 31 days :)

More to come!