Spiti Valley Motorcycle Tour – Himalaya India

The Spiti Valley motorcycle tour begins with your flight to New Delhi. You usually land in the middle of the night and are picked up by our team at the airport and taken directly to the hotel, before the onward journey begins the next morning.

After breakfast we set off on the roughly 250-kilometer drive to Chandigarh, the gateway to this Himalaya motorcycle tour. The Royal Enfield motorcycles for the coming days are already waiting there.

On this onroad Himalaya motorcycle tour we swing through curves over roughly 135 kilometers up to about 2,200 meters to Shimla, the former summer capital of the British colonial government.

This adventure motorcycle tour India stage leads over flowering meadows and green mountain slopes to Sarahan at 2,165 meters, where the Indo-Tibetan Bhimakali Temple sits picturesquely above the Sutlej Valley.

As part of this guided India motorcycle tour we follow the Sutlej River to Kalpa at over 2,700 meters, where Tibetan-Buddhist wooden houses and a rebuilt temple invite exploration.

An optional detour on this Kinnaur Spiti motorcycle tour takes you from Kalpa roughly 50 kilometers to Lippa, a village whose inhabitants have maintained their traditional way of life and harmony with nature to this day.

This stage shows why this is called a challenging India motorcycle tour: asphalt disappears in places, while the high desert of Spiti opens up along the roaring Spiti River far below.

As typical on a Ladakh and Spiti motorcycle tour, you explore Nako's winding alleys and one of the 108 gompas founded in the 11th century by Ringchen Zangpo, tended today by a single monk from Kullu.

This Nako–Kaza motorcycle tour stage pushes deeper into the valley, into the cold-desert landscape around Kaza – the largest settlement of the region at 3,650 meters, known for its relaxed atmosphere.

From Kaza this Himachal Pradesh motorcycle tour stage climbs to Kibber at 4,270 meters, as well as the monasteries of Ki and Komic – two of the highest monastic complexes in India.

Today is the most demanding stage of this challenging India motorcycle tour: Kunzum Pass at 4,551 meters separates Spiti from Lahaul, followed by a river crossing toward Sissu.

Rohtang La separates the Spiti Valley from the fertile Kullu Valley. On this Himachal Pradesh motorcycle tour stage we stay overnight in the former royal palace of Nagar with views across the Himalaya.

Past orchards and winding country roads we reach Rewalsar, known for its gigantic Padmasambhava statue – another culturally rich moment on this Kinnaur Spiti motorcycle tour route.

We overnight in Mandi and then ride roughly 170 kilometers back to Chandigarh, the starting point of this Chandigarh–Shimla motorcycle tour, where the Royal Enfield motorcycles are returned.

By comfortable train back to Delhi, including breakfast and drinks. Those who booked the Taj Mahal visit are taken directly to Agra – the start of the final chapter of this Taj Mahal India motorcycle tour.

Those who chose the extension see the white marble of the Taj Mahal at dawn – a quietly impressive close to this motorcycle tour, before the evening return flight awaits.

For the Taj Mahal visitors, the night flight home brings this intense journey to a close – the end of a trip through Spiti Valley and the wider Himalaya of India.