Around Kathmandu Valley (Backroads of Kathmandu)

Around Kathmandu Valley (Backroads of Kathmandu)

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With Makalu Adventure, you can enjoy first class adventure travel anytime of the year. During spring and fall, the weather condition in Nepal is perfect for mountain bike touring, road cycling and adventure vacations with destinations like around Kathmandu valley and a host of other attractive places. If you would like to try a rather short and self-supported mountain biking trip, we invite you to sign up for Around Kathmandu Valley guided bike tours. These are all an introductory rides taking you through the ancient rural villages, monasteries with superb views of the Himalayas. Biking through the rural villages at the valley rim on the back trails with some ups and downhill tracks also provides you sufficient time to immerse in its peaceful surrounding and a chance to see the other back side of Kathmandu. The biking trips within Kathmandu Valley allow you to enjoy its hidden pockets rarely frequented by the trekkers. These trips are especially designed to allows you the opportunity to experience as much of Nepal as possible in a week holiday which incorporate visits to Nepal’s historic cities, hill resorts, temples, monasteries and picturesque villages tucked away in the forests along the way.

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A: Katmandu-Bungumati-Chapagaon: After an early breakfast in Kathmandu, the ride will pass through the back alleys of the old city and head south to Bungumati for a visit to the Machhendranath temple and observation of traditional Newari architecture. From here we then descend on rocky single track to the lower village of Khokana and then an uphill ride to Bungumati. The ride will then continue towards south climbing on jeep track through lush green forest to the village of Champi. A combination of downhill push and uphill carry for 15 minutes will then reach to picturesque village of Chapagaon. From Chapagaon the trail reaches the village of Baregoan that leads to Kathmandu along the quite Godavari road

B: Teen Piple Rice Field Plunge with Tokha: The ride begins around the base of Nagarjun forest also known as Raniban (Queen’s forest). During the ride one can enjoy the beautiful scene of terraced rice and mustard fields and surrounding clusters of thatch-topped and ocher-mudded houses. After crossing the Osho Tapoban Forest Retreat Centre on Kakani road we will then be arriving to the Teenpipli village from where we climb to one of the most beautiful places called Tokha from where there are excellent views of Kathmandu valley. We will spend some time here exploring the area and visiting some famously artistic religious monuments such as the Bhimsen temple (a deity worshipped for strength and courage),Kali temple and village cremation grounds.

C: Temple Pilgrimage: After breakfast, we ride from Thamel towards Indrachowk and then to the Durbar Square. We visit Kumari Temple (dedicated to the living Goddess), Hanuman Dhoka (old Royal Palace), Kasthamandap, Ashok Binayak, Shiva temple, Maru Tole, Maju Deval, Bhagwati temple etc. We then head on the paved road towards Swoyambhu. We circumambulate at the base of Swoyambhu hill and ride uphill to the top from the south-west. Enjoy the holy stupa and the magnificent views of the Kathmandu city. The Stupa is colloquially known as the "Monkey Temple" because of the large number of monkeys guarding the temple. It was build around 4th century. Here you can see Lord Buddha's lifecycle, monuments, temples, idols and a giant stupa. In a clear day, you can see whole valley with 360-degree panoramic view. After then we ride down to ring road via Chhauni (army barrack) and Tahachal on a paved road - bit of traffic. A mere 20 minutes ride south-east will take us to the Patan Durbar Square. We will have lunch here and then see the ancient town with Newari culture and architecture. The main places to visit are Patan Durbar Square, Krishna Temple, Bhimsen Temple etc. Krishna Temple is one of the beautiful temples built completely with stone carving.
We then ride to the paved road again and after 20 minutes ride on main road toward north east, we will reach in the courtyard of World's one of most holy place for Hindu's called Pashupatinath (temple of Lord Shiva), non-Hindus are not allowed to enter in but one can go to the other side of the holy Bagmati river and enjoy the activities in and around the temple courtyard. You can see devotees taking bath in the holy river Bagmati before performing the prayer or worship. We then take a short break with Sadhu's and take blessings from them to prepare for our final destination, a holy Buddhist shrine, Boudhanath, a 10 minutes ride to northeast- one of the biggest Buddhist Stupas in Asia. You can see monks, nuns, Tibetan refugees and Buddhist devotees walking around the Stupa with prayer wheels, Oil lamps and chanting mantras of Buddhism. After taking tea break we then come back to Thamel, which will take 25 minutes.

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