Overview
The 20 Days Cycling – An Offbeat Journey is not your average bike tour. This is a deep, immersive exploration of India’s lesser-known trails, where each day reveals a new landscape, a new culture, and a new way of seeing the world.
Rather than sticking to touristy hotspots, this ride takes you into the heart of India’s backroads — through remote mountain passes, coastal hamlets, tribal regions, forest reserves, tea plantations, and timeless rural villages. You’ll connect with locals, stay in hand-picked homestays and eco-lodges, and ride routes that rarely see outside visitors.
Whether it’s the hidden valleys of the Western Ghats, the tribal belt of Odisha or Chhattisgarh, the lesser-explored northeast, or the cultural heartlands of central India, every segment is designed to offer depth, authenticity, and adventure.
Expect a mix of terrain (hills, flats, dirt roads, and forest paths), diverse climates, and surprises around every bend. Your journey will be supported by a professional crew, backup vehicle, local guides, and stories that stay with you long after the ride ends.
Perfect for seasoned cyclists, photographers, culture lovers, and slow travelers, this tour is a celebration of India in its raw, unfiltered form.
Highlights
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🚴♂️ Cycle across multiple offbeat regions of India, far from typical routes.
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🏞️ Explore pristine forests, hills, coastlines, and cultural corridors.
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🏡 Stay with local families, tribal villages, and sustainable eco-stays.
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🧘 Participate in yoga, craft workshops, or storytelling sessions with locals.
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🛕 Visit hidden temples, ancient stepwells, and sacred groves tucked deep in nature.
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🥘 Savor regional cuisines, cooked in traditional styles by your hosts.
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📸 Capture raw and powerful images of people, places, and life off the grid.
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👣 Engage with rural and tribal communities, learning crafts, music, and folklore.
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🌿 Ride through protected areas, wildlife corridors, and eco-sensitive zones.
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🌏 Support sustainable travel, with minimal environmental impact and high cultural respect.
Tailor-made trip
Golden Cycling Tours is a bike tour operator housing an experienced team of biking guide, bike mechanic, driver, cycling tour consultant and bicycle specialists. We can create a unique, custom-designed independent itinerary that is fully adapted to your needs, whether you are traveling solo, with family and friends, or as a group.
The itinerary above is only a sample that can be re-designed to better fit your needs and/or budget. Please click here to let us know what you are interested in adding or excluding to customize a selected itinerary or to design a completely new program just for you.
What’s Included
Tour Cost includes:
- Mountain Bike and helmet
- Boat trip mention in program
- All hotels , homestay.. (twin share ) and meals specified
- Cycle support by a/c vehicles ( to take care bike & rider and luggages)
- Permit tickets to villages and home stay
- All water, fruits and snacks whilst riding
- All entrances fee and sites mentioned
- English speaking guide
- All meals mentioned ( B = Breakfast, L= Lunch, D = Dinner )
Tour Cost excludes:
- International Flights to Hanoi and Departure from Hanoi
- Departure Tax
- Visa Fees
- Alcoholic, and other beverages in the evenings
- Tips for guides and driver
- Personal travel insurance
- Any services not mentioned in itinerary
Things to be prepared:
- Hat
- Small backpack
- Shoes and shorts for cycling
- Sunglasses
- Gloves
Itinerary
This itinerary allows for average daily distances of approximately 30-50 kms. This is designed to enjoy the cycling through the rural life and meet the people of Himachal and spiti. The vehicle will accompany and en-route make stop for bottled water and juices for the cyclist. A nice way of sharing different experiences encountered on the way. The support vehicle will always travel behind the last cyclist. If you wish to take a break from riding wait at the side of the road and supporting vehicle will pick you up. Delhi – Shimla – Narkanda – Sarahan – Sangla – Kalpa – Nako – Tabo – Kaza - Kibber – Chandratal – Manali - Delhi
Tour Plan
Greeting at the Delhi International airport than our representative will take you to the hotel. Overnight stay in the hotel.