Today after early breakfast we transfer to domestic airport we’ll transfer by Jeep from Kathmandu and head to peaceful Pokhara. Beautiful scenic drive takes us to the beautiful city Pokhara. Enjoy your beautiful lake in the lakeside visit nearby places

Early morning, we will be headed to Pokhara Airport for the most probably spectacular flight in the world. Flying through the world's highest mountain and the world's deepest valley into Jomsom airport, where we will have coffee or tea and change into the riding gear.

Once the sun is out in the valley we will start our ride mellow first day of the ride and then acclimate to the high altitude. Flowing the dirt road to Kagbeni for 5 km and we take the right to Falak climb like 4 km to 3500 meters on the loose and gravel road to Falak.

Once we reach the village we will prepare ourselves for the first descent of the trip. We will ride a combination of fast loose track and tractor trail down to the suspension bridge. That we earlier crossed, which is likely to be very windy at this point, we will continue to head north of the valley another 2 km to reach the medieval village of Kagbeni.

Ride Stats  

Total distance: 16km | Total time out: 4 hours | Elevation Gained: 600meter | Elevation Lost:  600 meter | Highest elevation: 3500 meter| Overnight elevation: 2800 meter

Key points

- Dress warmly for the flight since temperatures when we land in Jomsom will be very low.

- You will have the opportunity to change into your riding gear once you are in Jomsom, so you do not have to start the morning with your riding kit on.

- The mustang valley picks up heavy wind after 10 am regularly. It is strongly

recommended that you carry a wind or rain jacket and buff with you while riding.

Breakfast will be served at 7:30 with our riding gears on. We will straight pack the bike on the shuttle truck. Drive for 1 hour to a village called Jhong 3500 meters. There we will do a fairly amount of gentle uphill to the GHYU LA pass 4300 meters on the single track alongside the 7th highest peak in the world named Mt Dhaulagiri.

From the Pass, we will be entering the forbidden kingdom of the upper mustang.

The trail here is loose and fast with a small section of loose baby head rocks. We will pass by the quiet town of Tangbe quite and located under the unique cliff formation made by the wind. We will be heading to Chusang for another 2 km of downhill on the dirt road. Chusang 3200 meters will be our lunch spot. After lunch, we will visit the nun monastery on the other side of Kaligandaki.

This monastery was built in the 16th century and has a long history. It has some beautiful painting and a Buddha statue. There our driver will pack our bike on a shuttle and prepare to drive us into the upper mustang valley. We will be driving for 3 hours to Ghami 3500 meters and we will stay there overnight.

Ride Stats

Total distance of ride: 15km | Total time out: 4 hours | Elevation Gained: 300 meters |

Elevation Lost: 1200 meter | Highest elevation: 4300meter | Overnight elevation: 3500

meter

Key points

- Drive to Jhong village 3500meter

- Hike and bike to 4300 meters to GHU LA pass

- Long descent of 12km

- Visiting the oldest nun Monastry in upper mustang

- Drive to Ghami

This day we will be riding 4 different trails. Our truck will drop us to the 4300 meters pass that we had earlier passed named jaite pass. It's a new trail that was locally made to avoid the road for trekkers. We will have a small uphill to 44oo meters. The view from the top is breathtaking, we overlook the whole Annapurna range. Along the view will prepare ourselves to drop down through karki la pass to our overnight stay hotel which is dived into 2 parts top section and a lower section. The top section is more like a fast and small switchback and a small section of road. And lower is more likely loose rock and fast flowy section.

As we come back to the village and we jump right into our shuttle truck and head towards the Dakmar (red cliff) where our 2 trails are located. We will be doing the narrow gully trail inside the cliff to dakmar village and grabbing lunch. By then we will be drained by the energy and need to fuel up for another long flowy trail that takes us to our lodge for the night.

Charang is the biggest and most densely populated village in upper mustang and has an important village in mustang. It is believed that it is the capital city of mustang. And has some of the oldest monastery and places. In the Evening we can visit Charang monastery and different places.

Ride Stats  

Total distance: 21km | Total time out: 5 hours | Elevation Gained: 500 meter | Elevation Lost:  1400meter | Highest elevation: 4300 meter | Overnight elevation: 3800 meter

Key points

- 4 trails downhill

- Ridding through the daakmar trail

- Ridding from 4400 meter

- Exploring the monastery of charang

This day is mixed with culture, cave exploration and ridding. We load up the bikes on the trucks and head towards the loghaker (the oldest monastery in the world). Ghar gompa is the oldest monastery of mustang built in the 8th century by guru Rinpoche & "Padmasambhava” the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. Ghar Gumba is situated at an elevation of 3931 meters above sea level. Ghar Gumba is related to Nyingma sect of Buddhism.

Lo Gekar or Ghar Gompa is the utmost religious site decorated with many Chortens and prayer flags around the monastery. Ghar Gompa is the major highlight of lower to upper mustang. Many people from around the world travel to this holy site for spiritual experience and to explore the isolation of Mustang. Upper mustang Ghar Gumba trek is the journey of a lifetime that will be etched in your memory forever.

After the site seeing. we head south along the gravel road and single track through Marang and to the Charang towards the cave. These caves are very interesting to observe and being there is very special make us think about how life was 100 years ago and how people manage to live. The cave is 5 stores high and separate from the rest of the world and people don't visit here as atourist does in other caves.

After a quick lunch back at the hotel and hop into the shuttle and drive like 10 km to the grazing field of mustang to 4500 meters. Where the truck will drop us at the top and ride down the vast open field to Lomathang. Trails are more mellow and flowy with small drops and fast.

Ride Stats

Total distance: 25km | Total time out: 5 hours | Elevation Gained: 400 meter | Elevation Lost:  1500meter | Highest elevation: 4500 meter | Overnight elevation: 3800 meter

Key points

- Visiting the oldest monastery in the world.

- Exploring the caves

- Riding from 4500meter

- Riding in a grazing field of mustang

On the rest day we can visit Lomanthan and different monasteries. We can decide on that day what we feel like doing. If some want to ride, we can do some riding too.

Key points

- Visiting 16th - century monastery Thubchen Lhakang Monastry

- Mural paintings understanding

Leaving Lomanthang and we will be heading to the remote area of upper mustang on the eastern side where less amount of tourist visit. Being remote means to us the best riding trails and amazing single tracks.

Shuttle up to the top of Lomanthang to a windy pass. The first bit of the trail is more like xc style until the top of 4300 meters from this point we will have a whole 360 degree view of mustang along the whole Annapurna range.

From this point, we will head down to the valley along with some of the sharp ridges and loose fast trails that are very unique to the rest of the world. Riding like a free ride to the hidden village called Dhee. Where this will be our lunch stop and pack the bike to Luri Gompa, which is 2km away from our overnight stay Yara village.

Luri Gumba, a Buddhist monastery is one of the cave monasteries of upper mustang. There are chortens, statues of Buddhist deities, and mandala paintings inside the gompa. During this journey, one can familiar with the Himalayan culture and the tradition of magical and isolated areas.

We will ride down to the yara village and stay there overnight, where the accommodations are basic and simple.

Ride Stats

Total distance: 15km | Total time out: 5 hours | Elevation Gained: 700 meter | Elevation Lost:  1500meter | Highest elevation: 4300 meter | Overnight elevation: 3200 meter.

Key points

- Riding in the loose and fast gully trail

- Riding on ridge lines

- Visit the unique Chorten of Luri Gompa

- Hotels are pretty basic.

Riding in the backcountry of mustang region, the first ride will be like a xc ride to the dha village. After that the trail will be fast and flowy in the open field along with Mt Nilgiri.

From Dhe village, we will be doing the shuttle to the top of 4500 meters. This trail is pretty secret and only a hand full of people rode it. It's such an amazing trail loam condition with the running hills.

Ride Stats

Total distance: 15km | Total time out: 5 hours | Elevation Gained: 300 meter | Elevation Lost:  1500meter | Highest elevation: 4200 meter | Overnight elevation: 3200 meter

Today is the toughest day of the trip. The day consists 3 hours of hike and biking to 4200 meters. Maybe it's the toughest day on the trip but it is a beautiful day on the trail. Trails are flowy and xc type ride along the ridge like in 4100 to 4000 meters. These days we need to be self-sufficient

with food and water.

The last bit of the trail to Chusang is loose and technical due to the loose baby head-size rock. By the time we have to face the strong wind of the mustang while going down the valley.

There will be late lunch for us on this day. After lunch bike will be packed, we will hop in the truck to Kagbeni where we stayed the first night.

Ride Stats  

Total distance: 22km | Total time out: 7 hours | Elevation Gained: 1200meter | Elevation Lost:  1700meter | Highest elevation: 4200 meter | Overnight elevation: 2800 meter

Key points

- Hike and bike 3 hours

- Long day on the bike

- Self-sufficient with food and water for the day

- Hotels are basic.

After breakfast at Kagbeni we will drive for 40 min on the scenic road to Muktinath town lies 3800 meters. We will ride towards the Lubra pass. The Lubra trail is the signature trail in lower mustang that everyone loves due to its nature of the fast and loose flowy trail. The epic single track will bring us down to the valley floor.

Where we will meet our truck and will drive the last 10 km of the road section to the thakali village of marpha. Marpha is known for its apple trees.

From Marpha we will be riding toward Kalopani . Following the old trekking trail and the loss of suspension bridges and foot bridges ,this ride will be flowy with some of the trail in the woods, river banks, and dirt roads.

Ride Stats  

Total distance: 45km | Total time out: 7 hours | Elevation Gained: 400 meter | Elevation Lost:  1500meter | Highest elevation: 4200 meter | Overnight elevation: 2500 meter

Key points

- Ridding the signature trails of the mustang.

- Riding on a busy road be careful with the traffic + stay on the left side of the road.

- Riding through the Thakali village.

- Lower altitude riding. Here you will feel fast and lots of oxygen

Riding between two of the world’s highest mountains, following a raging river down the deepest gorge valley on Earth, there is one ride that can compete with the previous day in terms of sheer epicness, this is it. The morning ride is beautiful and mellow through the beautiful pine forest back side of the hotel.

The most exciting ‘road’ descent in the world, this is a road like no other. At times, it’s less like a road and more like a wide downhill trail with moving obstacles such as tractors, bulldozers, buses, and chickens. And we come to the Tatopani. Here we will change and pack our bikes on the trucks and head back to Pokhara where the drive will be 4.5 hours.

Total distance:
27km | Total time out: 2 hours | Elevation Gained: 200 meter | Elevation Lost: 1500meter | Highest elevation: 2500 meter | Overnight elevation: 800 meter

Key points:

- Rocky decent

- Busy Roads

Transfer to Kathmandu. Enjoy your extra day taking rest and buying some shopping for your family & friends back home. Farewell dinner tonight.

Time to say safe journey see you again soon Namaste!!!! 3 hours before your flight schedule we leave you at the international airport Kathmandu.