Bicycling at 12,000 feet in the remote Niti Valley

With every muscle straining and the only respite the cool breeze in your face you finally clear the gently uphill climb. Everywhere you look is a carefully composed frame, the composition is just so, the light just that golden and the air crisp and keen. You stop for a while and then you're on the road again. What looks like the end of the road ahead is just another bend and as you take it another panorama unfolds and just as you thought it couldn't get better than that last frame, this one takes your breath away. You get off your bike again, just for a few moments, you promise yourself and then you'll make it to that village some miles away...

Our Footprints on Wheels package offers you the rare opportunity to combine the good old-fashioned exercise with a holiday in the extraordinary Himalaya. It is an adventure of sunrises and bird song, snow capped mountains and deep valleys. You can take as many days as you like.

The itinerary:

Special geared mountain bicycles are available at the NDETDA offices in Joshimath and in Tapovan. Both these towns are well connected to Delhi. The route is from either of these stations to Malari.

Joshimath to Malari, 4 days
Tapovan to Malari, 3 days

Your return journey can be by bicycle or by conveyance arranged by the NDETDA.