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Across the Ganges Biking Tour


Duration: 10 Nights / 11 Days
Places to visit: Delhi - Rishikesh – Uttarkashi - Bhatwari – Harsil - Gangotri – Gangnani - Uttarkashi – Mussoorie - Dehradun - Delhi


Day 01: Arrive Delhi
On your early morning arrival at International airport, transfer to your hotel.

Delhi, India’s modern capital is also an ancient city tracing its origins in legend.  It is dotted with hundreds of landmarks and offers more than a millennium of history in stone.  From here various Hindu and Muslim dynasties including the Mughals ruled India. When British administration moved to Delhi and New Delhi became the Capital of India once again.

 

After refreshment you will proceed for full day sightseeing city tour of Delhi

 

Morning proceed for sightseeing of New Delhi,  Visit Qutub Minar, One of the fine examples of early afghan architecture, Humayun Tomb, built by the wife of Humayun, Haji Begum in the mid 16th century, this red sand stone structure is considered to be the predecessor of Taj Mahal.  Drive pass by India Gate (A War memorial) and Presidency House.


Afternoon proceed for sightseeing of Old Delhi, include the drive past to Red Fort, visit to Jama Masjid, Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best-known mosques, and later enjoy cycle rickshaw ride within Chandani Chowk market.
Stay overnight at hotel.

 

Day 02: Delhi – Rishikesh (By Car/ Coach)
Morning proceed for Rishikesh and on arrival check-in into the hotel.

Rishikesh Known as the ‘Yoga capital of the world is the one of the holy city of India situated on bank of the river Ganges. There are a number of ashrams in and around Rishikesh, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Ashram is famous the world over for which the credit goes to the rock band Beatles. Several ashrams offer oga courses and many pilgrims from in and around the country come here to learn yoga.

 

Afternoon you will explore the area and get used to the bicycles.

 

Visit Trivani Ghat, a bathing Ghat, where there streams of Ganga, Yamuna, Sarswati are said to flow together, and visit Bharat temple, and later you are free to visit the Laxman Jhula Laxman Jhoola  is beautiful sight,  Raghunathji temple and thirteen storey temple is the main attractions around jhoola.

 

Stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 03: Rishikesh – Uttarkashi (By Car/ Coach)
Morning proceed for Uttarkashi by surface and on arrival check-in into the hotel for overnight stay.
                
Uttarkashi situated on the right bank of river Bhagirathi, and surrounded on three sides by Himalayan ranges, known from medieval time as celestial abode, is a great pilgrimage center of India, and surrounded by the rivers Varuna and Assi, this sacred fast developing town is  newly constituted western most district of the Uttarkhand.
 
Day 04: Uttarkashi - Bhatwari (1218 m)        
From today you biking tour will start and you will proceed through hills area and reach Bhatwari and check-in into the in the lodge.

 Evening you will be free to nature walk to important town, with a small market.
 Stay overnight in lodge.

 

Day 05: Bhatwari - Harsil (2623 m)  
Morning your bicycles tour to Harsil and on arrival check-in into the lodge.

Harsil is beautiful sylvan hamlet with its winding shady roads, swinging conifers, sun-kissed mountains and scintillating Bhagirathi to add to its allure, charmed a British settler who introduced apple trees here. 
Stay overnight in lodge.   

 

Day 06: Harsil – Gangotri (3200 m)  
Today your biking tour will leave the harsil for Gangotri. Arrive Gamgotri in evening  and check-in into the hotel.

Gangotri  beyond the gorge where the Jadh Ganga meets the Bhagirathi, heralding the approach of the Gangotri temple, the narrow, Bhagirathi revine, dramatic and beautifully wooded, opens out into the Goddess Ganga stands on the right bank simple, but dignified in the valley of the gods surrounded by the majesty of the mountains, the beauty of nature . A valley flanked by jagged snowy peaks. Here is the start point of Ganga River source pilgrimage which attracts every year thousands of devotees.
Stay overnight in hotel.

Day 07: Gangotri - Gangnani (2133 m)  
Morning your bicycles tour to Gangnani and on arrival check-in into hotel.

Gangnani is a little paradise offering peace and solitude, surrounded by beauty and overlooked by the snows, is an ideal place for meditation. There are hot water springs.

Stay overnight in hotel.

Day 08: Gangnani - Uttarkashi (1158 m)  
Today your biking tour will leave the Gangnani for Uttarkashi. Arrive Uttarkash in evening and check-in into the hotel for overnight stay.
 
Day 09: Uttarkashi - Mussoorie (By Car/ Coach)
Morning proceed for Mussoorie by surface and on arrival check-in into the hotel.

Rising as a horseshoe shaped foothill that overlooks on the one side, the great plains sweltering in their pestilential heat with the holy Ganges, oiling its way through slowly, sluggishly across them, on the other, the vibrant, magnetic, silhouette of the Himalaya, is Mussoorie where the mountains to gay and the nobility mingles with the elite, when they sojourn there for the summer, as they did in the past and as they shall continue to do so in the future.
Stay overnight in hotel.
 
Day 10: Mussoorie - Dehradun - Delhi
Morning proceed for Delhi by surface and on arrival check-in into the hotel.

Day 11: Depart Delhi
In time you will transfer to international airport to connect flight for your onward journey.

 
 
 
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