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Showing posts with label Ladakh Adventure Bike Tours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ladakh Adventure Bike Tours. Show all posts

August 22, 2012

Drop in the “Land of Passes” to Catch Sight of Ladakh Attractions

Located in Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh is a must visit destination in India. Surrounded by two majestic mountain ranges, this beautiful land attracts many tourists every year. Ladakh tours also beckon adventure lovers from all over the world. With Ladakh attractions, you can also enjoy cultural tours, trekking and the cold desert expedition, river rafting, monastery visits and lots more.

Inviting tourists from far and wide, the beautiful attractions of Ladakh include:

Monastery in Ladakhs
Monasteries

Known as 'Gompa', monasteries are among the most popular attractions of Ladakh Tour. Many tourists visit Ladakh to see the well-retained Buddhist cultural heritage in these historic monasteries. These offer a deep insight on the Buddhist religion as well. A rich collection of Buddhist artifacts is available in these Gompas. Besides artifacts, visitors can also have the glimpses of sculptures, murals, Buddha idols and Thangka paintings. Some of the most famous monasteries in Ladakh include Lamayuru, Lekir, Thiksey, Alchi and Rizong.

Lakes

Ladakh is a home to the beautiful lakes, which make it a perfect place for honeymooners. As highest temperature hovers near 50 degress at a time, everything in Ladakh freezes. Major valleys like Indus and Zanskar become extensive highways of ice. The wonderful lakes like Pangong, Chandertaal Lake, Tso Morari and Tso Kar-White Lake also freeze to a depth of several meters. Tourists visiting Ladakh for the first time will surely get a mesmerizing experience.

Festivals

The unique festivals of Leh and Ladakh are the highlight of Ladakh tourism. To witness these events, tourists reserve a place in advance. These festivals are lively and colourful. Many festivals take place in winters. The monastic festivals are the heart of these festivals. Performed by monks, wearing colourful silk clothes and facial masks, these colourful events are a part of the living art of Ladakh. Celebrated in May, Hemis Gompa is the most popular festival of Ladakh. Tourists can enjoy vibrant dances in this festival.

Adventure

Adventure in Ladakh is a great fun. Endowed with an impressive geographical location, the land has a rocky terrain, higher mountain passes, vast expanses of grasslands and mountain streams. Its topography makes it a popular destination to enjoy different adventurous activities like rafting in Ladakh. During your Leh Ladakh travel, you can enjoy camping, trekking, cycling, river rafting, mountain climbing, motor biking, camel safari and even yak safari. Trekking in Ladakh ranges from short as well as day long mountain treks. 

Leh Palace, Shanti Stupa, Zanskar Valley and Nubra Valley are the other must-visit places in your Ladakh sightseeing.

On your India tour, you can also visit the fantastic Ladakh Attractions that include monasteries, valleys, lakes and lots more. If you love adventure, raftingin Ladakh will be a great fun for you.

July 10, 2012

Biking for Limitless Adventure-Ladakh!

Ladakh Biking Tours
Wroom wroom that goes high of exciting visit when to name about Ladakh biking tour. With an immense intention to accelerate my passion to drive long, I as a Delhiite ought to potter around the country, such as I had moved to Ladakh with rider' group last month. Truly the road to heaven on the earth Ladakh makes available superb biking conditions, limitless descents, and maximum of-road potential for the die-hard adventure lovers.

Thereby packed with all commodities to drive, we were set to ride for Adventure Tour Ladakh. As I heard a lot about beauty of Ladakh, I geared for Ladakh with my rider group. I fell in love with Ladakh. So I really felt bad while leaving the place. I never liked coming back from Adventure Bike Tours and go back to boring life of city.

The beauty of landscapes, roads, terrains, monasteries, Army convoys and simplicity of people was spread wherever sight went.
I stopped at many places to click photographs. In four to five hours ride, we started to get the unparalleled beauty of its barren stretches of land, lush green patches, gurgling streams & rivers.

In Ladakh, we experienced the godly presence with so many attractive Buddhist Gompas on the route while Motorbiking through small but very beautiful local villages that are at the backdrop of the snow-coated Himalayan mountain ranges. Here I would help explaining you that you can ride through the 1500 km road from Manali to Leh. The route takes one on a Zigzag course through the snaky turns of the Himalayan Roads.

Adventure Bike Tours
Besides all these, lunch at small village in dhaba with their indigenous was superb food. Dhabawala served us the lunch with Himalayan food & beverages that gave me a taste to remember ever. After long day performances of Ladakh Mountain Biking, we checked in hotel to rest. On next day we decided to make our mountain biking in Ladakh an enchanting experience.

The Leh road, which comes identified as the Army Road was built mostly for protection motives to supply the Indian armed forces in the far-flung regions of Ladakh. We met an army man who told us about the war at Kargil and other important incidents that soaked all our hearts in great patriotism. Truly Ladakh is an address to adventure-telling region but is famous most among mountain bikers.

Trekking in Ladakh is fulsome of adventure biking spots, such as Nimu, Alchi, Lamayuru, Himiskut, Mulbekh, Kargil, Suru Valley and Parkachik. So make your next trek for the places I have mentioned above to indulge with more scenic beauty of Ladakh. The best time for Ladakh motorbike tours in Ladakh befalls from mid June to September end.  At last I am to tell you have a must-ride for Ladakh biking tour that will leave you as me sharing my valuable moments with you all.