CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Manāli it runs 198 km to Manāli; allow about 3 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Great Himalayan National Park Conservation and back through Great Himalayan National Park Conservation. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Manāli is where the plains give up and the Himalaya begins in earnest. The town sits in the Kullu valley in Himachal Pradesh, on the banks of the Beas, among deodar forests and apple orchards, with snow peaks rising behind. Old Manali, across the river, is the quieter half, a tangle of lanes, wooden houses and cafes, and in the cedar woods above the town stands the Hadimba temple, a pagoda-like wooden shrine built in the sixteenth century and dedicated to a figure from the Mahabharata. The valley has long been a stopping place for traders, travellers and, more recently, backpackers and motorcyclists.
Read the complete Manali write-up.
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Manāli is where the day begins. Next is Great Himalayan National Park Conservation.
The Great Himalayan National Park is a long name for a wild place. It lies in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, at the meeting of several river valleys, the Tirthan, the Sainj and the Jiwa Nal, and it protects a steep forested wilderness that climbs from about fifteen hundred metres to over six thousand. It was established in the 1980s and listed by UNESCO in 2014, for its extraordinary biodiversity. Snow leopards, Himalayan tahr, brown bears and musk deer live here, and the forests are home to the western tragopan, a pheasant with a brilliant red and spotted plumage, and the monal, whose feathers shine in the sun like metal.
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Great Himalayan National Park Conservation comes up 40 km in. Next is Great Himalayan National Park Conservation.
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Read the complete Great Himalayan National Park Conservation write-up.
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79 km in you reach Great Himalayan National Park Conservation. Next is back through Great Himalayan National Park Conservation.
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Read the complete Great Himalayan National Park Conservation write-up.
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back through Great Himalayan National Park Conservation, late in the day. Next is Manali.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Manali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Manali. That is the ride.
Manāli → Great Himalayan National Park Conservation is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Great Himalayan National Park Conservation → Manali is 79 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.