The Panch Kedar by motorcycle
The five Panch Kedar shrines of Garhwal — where parts of Shiva are said to have surfaced after the Mahabharata war.
4 routes →Roar Riders
Route collections
Themed sets that cut across the library — the Panch Kedar, the passes over 4,000 m, tiger country, the first big trip. Pick a thread and follow it.
Passes and villages over 4,000 m
Every route in the library whose highest point clears 4,000 metres — motorable passes, plateau villages and the roadheads of high treks.
16 routes →Ride to the roadhead, walk the rest
Routes where the bikes stay in the last village and the destination is a walk — a meadow, a glacier snout, a ridge temple, a lake.
12 routes →Your first big trip
One or two nights, sealed roads the whole way, nothing rough or high, and a payoff that still feels like a proper journey.
10 routes →Hidden gems — the offbeat rides
The rides in the library that almost nobody makes — an extinct volcano near Narnaul, a Dard valley beyond a Kashmir pass, a meadow ridge with no name on most maps, a fort swallowed by forest, a river of gharial in the badlands.
42 routes →Tiger and big-cat country
Rides to the boundary of a tiger reserve, a leopard-granite landscape or a Shivalik sal forest.
8 routes →Bird spectacles
Places where the birds are the whole point — a village that hand-feeds ten thousand cranes, a grassland of wintering raptors, a reservoir of bar-headed geese, a Ganga wetland with dolphins in the mix.
6 routes →Hill forts and fortress towns
The great defensive architecture of the plains and the Aravallis — the largest fort in India, a fort ringed by rivers, a colossal Chandela hill fort with a shrine in the cliff, and walled towns you can still walk end to end..
9 routes →Ancient temples and rock-cut sites
Gupta-era shrines, temples carved from a single ridge, cave chapels, wooden Kath-Kuni towers and hillsides of Jain colossi — some of the oldest and least-visited built things in north and central India..
11 routes →Living crafts and distinct cultures
Routes built around a living tradition or a community that keeps the world at arm's length — pit-loom weavers, fresco towns, a Russian painter's estate, and the Balti, Brokpa and Malana villages with their own languages and rules..
9 routes →The Mahabharata landscape
The Kuru heartland and the places the Mahabharata marks — the field of the war, the old capital, and a Pandava-legend temple on the Yamuna.
3 routes →Rivers, confluences and ravines
The border rivers, the sacred confluences and the badland gorges — the Kali on the Nepal line, the nearest Ganga ghats to Delhi, the Chambal ravines with their gharial, and a tribal fair on a river sandbar..
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