Day 1 :Delhi - This evening will be busy in collecting all members of expedition at Indira Gandhi International airport- New Delhi. Very soon you will realize that city of 12 million people at times confusing, at time challenging & all times chaotic. Delhi is never still ,never restful, Never boring!! You stay at 5* hotel to before you switch over to” One of the Greatest Adventure of your life” We need to leave our main baggage down in lobby before we sleep which will be loaded on our Mini bus to meet next morning at Chandigarh Railway station.

Day 2: Delhi / Chandigarh / Shimla- We all meet at 0600 AM at lobby with Helmets in our backpack . We board fast train at 0720 AM . A reasonably good breakfast is served on board which is included in ticket price. We make formal introduction with each other on board. Arrive at 11 AM. You will have first glimpse of your 500 CC Royal Enfield Motorcycles line up out side Chandigarh Railway station. Our Mechanics will give demonstration of all parts used by you on Motorcycle. They will make you aware of Dos & Don’ts. We make practice session for about half an hour & get tuned to clutch, gears n brakes.Test Horn- It is offensive if you don’t use horn while over taking. You will find signs on the back of Most of vehicles saying : “ Horn Please” Or “ Blow Horn “ “Wait for Side” – means “wait for space given for over take by vehicle in front after you “Blow Horn” as over taking indication. It is all set now to drive in plains for about 15 Kms. Before we get into zibzag drive to Foot hills of Shimla. You start falling in love with it immediately when you get on to main road with all grears changed smoothly. After driving 50 Kms , we make our first stop for lunch at Dharampur & have first taste of Indian Food & share our first hand experience of Enfield Motor Cycle. We then proceed another 60 Kms along a hilly and winding road to Shimla, Shimla was the summer national capital in the days of the British Raj, when the entire government would relocate up here for three months every year to avoid the sweltering heat of Delhi. The stately English houses are starting to look a little ragged around the edges these days, but the main street is still called The Mall where the locals enjoy their evening stroll every day. After dinner at hotel, we get to bed for sleep.

Day 3 : Shimla / Mandi - we are on our way to Mandi, along twisting roads above stunning terraced slopes .Densely wooded hillsides flank the many streams of the area. We cross the turbulent Sutlej River in the morning and arrive at Mandi in the afternoon on the banks of the boiling Beas –A popular River for angling for India’s famous Mahsheer, that monstrous freshwater fish weighing in at 30 kilos (65 pounds) or more! Dinner & over night stay at hotel.

Day 4 : Mandi / Manali- Today,we enjoy our drive through the wonderful Kulu Valley, a spectacularly beautiful region of lush green hills alongside the Beas River. The narrow, winding road clings to the side of the sometimes steep gorge, with the river at times 300 metres directly below us. A road sign which always draws a smile advises, "Be Gentle on my curves". Further on where the valley widens out we see the orchards and fields of this very fertile area, providing a good lifestyle for the main towns of Kulu and Manali. Dinner & Over night stay at hotel.

Day 5: Manali- We are having a ‘rest day’ in Manali, which could mean hiking up to Hadimba Temple, Old Manali Or we can just wander through the markets, picking up bargains in the Tibetan bazaars. Today is also our first acclimatizing day, before we start climbing tomorrow. Over night stay at hotel.

Day 6: Manali / Keylong -We really start getting serious this morning with the gloves and the jacket liner . As we reach the snowline the sun will begin to disperse the mists, revealing the most sensational views ever imagined.Endless valleys stretch out in every direction from the 3,978-metre Rohtang Jot, where we enter the remote world of the Lahaul Valley. Your head will be swiveling from side to side in amazement all the way to the tiny village of Keylong- home for the night.

Day 7 : Keylong / Sarchu - Every turn into a new valley produces a breathtaking change of colour, texture, formation. Enormously deep river canyons combine with wind, rain and ice to carve impossible sculptures out of rock and gravel. Several times today we may find water gushing across the road from glacier melt, causing us to dismount if deep, pushing the bikes through with ignition turned off to prevent shorting out the spark plug. And yes, the water is cold. Our destination for today is a group of a dozen tents in a semi-permanent ‘town’ called Sarchu, which marks our entry into Ladakh region of the state of Jammu & Kashmir. This night will give chilliest experience with strong winds.

Day 8: Sarchu / Leh- it just keeps getting better. The day starts with us tackling the 21 switchbacks of the Gata Loops up the side of a rocky mountain, then zipping along a flat, straight, lunar-landscape plateau where nomadic peoples tend their goats and yaks, which appear to have developed the ability to survive on a diet of gravel and sand. Then it’s up, up and more up as we climb to the Taglang La, at 5,328 metres the second highest road in the world. . At this altitude the Enfield as well as ourselves may have difficulty breathing the rarefied air - there’s not a lot of oxygen up here! It’s also cold, so after the obligatory photographs we then proceed to legendary Leh, the Ladakhi capital .Running next is sacred Indus river, source of all life in this region.

Day 9 Leh- This day allows further acclimatizing. We’ll ride back along the Indus Valley a short way to Thikse Gompa, a dramatic Buddhist monastery clinging to the side of a hill and eerily similar to Lhasa’s Potala Palace in Tibet. A little further on, Shey Palace houses a huge Buddha and a fine collection of thankas, Tibetan wall hangings. We can cross the river and
ride back to Leh via Stok, where the Ladakhi royal family now reside. At sunset we usually visit the splendid hilltop Shanti Stupa (peace pagoda) nearby, to watch the curtain be drawn on Leh.

Day 10: Leh- Khardungla La -Highest Motorable Pass in the World : This moring we are heading further north. Our objective is the head of the Nubra Valley at the Khardung La, at 5,602 metres the highest road in the world open to traffic! We have the satisfaction of knowing that no-one anywhere has ever driven or ridden higher in the world than we are right now. This is as close to heaven as we’ll ever get on a Motorcycle! This whole area is actually a military zone and special permission is obtained from the authorities because it is fairly close to the sensitive border with China, aka Tibet. We return to Leh again for the night.

Day 11: Leh / Lamayuru / Kargil –We follow the Indus Valley, home of one of the oldest civilizations known to mankind. We head west with the river, passing some amazing scenery until we arrive at possibly the weirdest of it all; a ‘Moonland’ of light-coloured composite rock wedged into a high little valley. Local speculation identifies it as a meteor or part of some other heavenly body crashed to Earth, but in reality it was a perched lake zillions of years ago. We then proceed a little further to Lamayuru, a spectacular 1000-yearold Buddhist gompa built in the traditionally accepted manner; ie clinging to an impossible hillside. This gompa is the oldest and one of the most important in Ladakh, but even more impressive is the medieval village beneath it. It’s a little catacomb of dark passageways and stone dwellings virtually unchanged in over a thousand years and well worth more than just a casual glance.After lunch we head the bikes further west again, crossing the Fatu La at 4147m and the Namika La at 3760m, to arrive at a quiet little town called Mulbekh. Here, having spent the first week of our travels in Hindu-dominated Himachal and the second week in the Buddhist-majority Ladakh, we now cross the threshold into very-Muslim Kashmir and proceed through to Kargil for the night.

Day 12: Kargil / Srinagar: Early morning drive through Drass, whose main claim to fame apparently is being the second-coldest town on the face of the Earth (behind Hobart, presumably… ). We then climb yet another high pass, the Zoji La at 3529m and continue to Sonamarg, a stunning green valley sometimes described as the Switzerland of India. We proceed through the Vale of Kashmir to arrive at Srinagar, the long-troubled but exquisite capital of Jammu & Kashmir state, where
accommodation consists of a couple of luxury houseboats moored on picturesque Dal Lake, which for centuries has moved men to poetry and music. Led Zeppelin fans may be familiar with Robert Plant’s haunting lyrics in Kashmir; “I am a trav’ler of both time and space, to be where I have been . . .”

Day 13: Srinagar- House Boat Srinagar has been the centre of the dispute over Kashmir since the troubles began at the time of Partition, 50 years ago. Violence has peaked and ebbed several times, all but destroying the tourism industry upon which much of the city’s economy depends. We’ll spend a day here to judge the situation for ourselves, lounging around on our houseboats or paddling through the city’s quiet backwaters in a shikhara, the unique Kashmiri gondola-style boat.Enjoy Famous Lamb Dishes of Kashmir.

Day 14: Srinagar- / Patni Top-Getting into South of Kashmir Valley from Srinagar on a rather busy highway to one of J&K’s hill stations, Patnitop. Enroute we experience the rather impressive Jawahar Lal Tunnel, 2½ km long, literally right through a mountain. It can be a little nerve-racking if you’re at all claustrophobic, so the plan is to bunch up and ride in 9 groups. It’s not very well lit, and six headlights are better than one. But the scenery along the river valleys and through the hills is very spectacular, and Patnitop offers commanding views all round.

Day 15: Patni Top / Dharamsala- We drive to McLeod Ganj via Dharamsala, back in the state of Himachal. Since Tibet’s spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced to flee in 1959 following the Chinese invasion of his homeland, this has been his home and the seat of the Tibetan Government in Exile. Tibetan Budhism is practiced in Dharamsala. Mingle with Local Tibetans & enjoy Momos in the evening in one of the Tibetan joints.
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Day 16 : Dharamsala :Another rest day. We may be lucky enough to be granted an audience with the Dalai Lama, or we may have to make do with visiting the Tibetan museum and library. The town is actually in two completely separate sections; McLeod Ganj is where the Tibetan community has settled en masse whilst Dharamsala is the lower part, a 3k walk away. The nearby cemetery and church of St. John in the Wilderness is worth a visit.

Day 17: Dharamsala / Amritsar- We’re starting to wind down the clock. We head back through the foothills of Himachal and enter into Punjab- One of the richest state of India. Amritsar- Here we got into land of Sikhs-Founded in 1577 by the fourth Sikh guru, Ram Das, Amritsar was built on a site donated by the Mughal emperor Akbar. Located in the heart of the city is the Golden Temple. The Sikh community's holiest shrine, surrounded by a maze of lanes and 18 fortified gateways. In 1984, parts of the Golden Temple were badly damaged during an army operation to flush out extremists holed up inside, who were demanding a separate Sikh homeland. It has now been repaired and carefully restored to its original and carefully restored to its original glory. The temple complex is actually a city within a city, and the main entrance is through its northern gateway, known as the Darshani Darwaza, which also houses the Central Sikh Museum. On display are collections of paintings, coins, manuscripts and arms, that combine to create a vivid picture of Sikh history. Steps lead down to the Parikrama (marble pathway) which encircles the Amrit Sarovar ("Temple of God"). Several holy and historic sites line the Parikrama, among them a tree shrine called the Dukh Bhanjani Ber, said to have miraculous powers for healing diseases, and the Athsath Tirath which represents 68 of the holiest Hindu pilgrim shrines. The Parikrama continues on to the Akal Takht, the seat v of the Sikh religious order. Its construction began in 1589 and was completed in 1601 by the sixth guru, Guru Hargobind, when t the began organizing the Sikh community into a political entity. The upper floors were built by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. As part of the daily ritual, the Holy Book of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib, is carried our of the Akal Takht ot the Hari Mandir at daybreak. The head priest then opens it for the vaq, the message for the day. From dawn till late at night the temple echoes with the music of ragis, musicians employed by the temple trust to sing verses from to Holy Book. Every visitor entering the Hari Mandir (including non-Sikhs) is given a dollop of sweet prasad (holy offering), and no visit is considered truly complete without a meal at the Guru ka Langar, a free kitchen where all visitors are fed a simple meal of dal-roti (lentil curry and bread). Run by volunteers this kitchen can feed 10000 people a day. Its vast hall, which can seat 3000 people at a time, serves as a symbol of the caste-free, egalitarian society that the Sikh gurus strove to create. The notion of kar-seva (voluntary manual labour for a cause) is an important part of the Sikh order. Tasks such as sweeping the temple precincts, cooking at the langar or looking after the pilgrims shoes, are enthusiastically performed by volunteers either as penance or as acts of worship. The final evening prayers are over by 9.45 pm, when the Holy Book is reverently closed and carried in a silver palanquin back to the Akal Takht. The floors of the temple are then washed with milk and water before the doors of the Darshani Deorhi are closed.

Day 18 : Amritsar- Visit Gold Temple early morning & rest of the day at leisure. Afetr noon we make our last Motorcycle excursion to India Pakistan Wagha Border: Environs : The last checkpost on the Indian border is at Wagah, just 9 km from Amritsar, separated from Attari in Pakistan by a thin ribbon of road. Each evening, as buglers sound the last post, two splendidly uniformed guards on either side of the border goose step across to the flagpoles to lower their respective national flags. Their respective national flags. Their steps are matched so perfectly that it is like watching a mirror image of the same exercise. The ceremony, which attracts crowds of spectators on both sides, is a poignant reminder of the Partition of 1947, when Punjab was divided between two nations. We salute to flags of two Nations – India & Pakistan. Conclude our One of the most memorable Trip of our life. Return to Amritsar.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!
You have completed epic 2000 Kms Trans Himalayan Expedition !!!

We say Good bye to our Bikes here & load our main baggage to our mini bus which will
deliver our Baggage in Delhi next day. [Motorcycling on 4 lane straight highway & heavy traffic is “NO FUN” ]

Day 19 : Amritsar / Delhi : Morning Fast train to Delhi leaving at 0510 AM & arrive at 1105 AM. Check in Hotel. Evening we get to Connaught Place- One of the most happening places in Delhi. Return to hotel for over night stay.

Day 20: Day trip to TAJ MAHAL : our early-morning starts are not over yet! 6:00am sees us at New Delhi railway station for the Shatabdi Express again, this time heading 200k south to the one-time Moghul capital city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal. The magnificence of the Taj cannot be overstated; it is simply the most superb building and is a mandatory side trip for anybody visiting the north of India. We’ll also take in the impressive redsandstone Agra.

Day 21-Farewell Dinner - Day for own activities, make your packings, last minute shopping. In the eving ,we meet for farewell dinner & thanks giving to Our expedition support team. After early dinner, we proceed to International airport- You are full of stories to tell your friends atleast for next few months.