CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Shimla it runs 383 km to Shimla; allow about 7 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.
Shimla is where the British came to escape the heat of the plains, and it still has the look of a Surrey town that took a wrong turn into the Himalaya. Built along a ridge at roughly twenty-two hundred metres, with pine and cedar trees and rows of red-roofed houses, it served as the summer capital of British India, and decisions affecting hundreds of millions of people were made here between May and October. The Ridge, an open promenade in the centre, is lined with Christ Church, a pale yellow neo-Gothic building of the 1850s, and the Mall, a long shopping street, runs alongside. Vehicles are restricted on the Mall and the Ridge, so you will park below and walk up.
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Shimla 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 61 km in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Great Himalayan National Park Conservation write-up.
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122 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 Shimla.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Shimla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Shimla. That is the ride.
Shimla → Great Himalayan National Park Conservation is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Great Himalayan National Park Conservation → Shimla is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.