Find the remotest region in the north, multiply it by two and square it. Then do other complex calculations to it and you will then fathom the remoteness of the most amazing region in the Himalayas! The Pangi Valley. Cut off from the rest of the country for over six months in a year, the Pangi valley is unimaginably picturesque, full of wild, untamed grandeur.
The Pangi valley is divided into the Saichu, Hudan Bhatori and Sural Bhatori valleys and are all above 7000ft elevation. Roads are poorly maintained, if any. It is an adventurers paradise.
With most riders and tourists making a beeline for Ladakh and Spiti, this is one of the few unexplored regions of Himachal still unscathed by unruly visitors from the plains, tainting the happy, smiling, ever helpful faces of the inhabitants of the region.
Pangi can be approached via three distinct routes, each offering breathtaking scenery and snow covered peaks all around.
From the Manali side, one may following the following route:
Manali > Rohtang > Keylong > Udaipur > Tindi
The Pangi valley extends for about 100km from Kala naala, which bisects the Udaipur-Tindi road.
From the Jammu (and Kashmir) side, one may approach the Pangi Valley via:
Udhampur > PatniTop> Batote> Doda > Kishtwar > Gulabgarh
From the Chamba Side, one my approach Pangi via:
Chamba > Tissa > Bhanjraru > Bhairagarh > Satrundi > The mighty Sach Pass > Killar
Good Evening!! Very informational post. Plz let me know whether I can do this route starting from Rohtang Pass and exiting via Chamba with my wife as Pillion on my RE TBTS 350 2009 model or we require some 500 cc machine. Thanx
Yes, I did this on my TB350AVL and my friend was on his 350 Std 1977. I am sure you’ll face no problems 🙂 the TBTS 350 is a very capable machine. Just understand that there are NO ROADS from Udaipur to Bhairagarh. From the Kashmir side, the road condition is the same until you reach Gulabgarh.
You’ll need to take the following route:
Manali> Rohtang> Tandi> Udaipur> Tindi> Shaur> KIllar> Satrundi> Bairagarh> Tissa> Chamba.
Thank you for the reply. You mentioned in your reply that “there are NO ROADS from Udaipur to Bhairagarh.” I recently did Chd.-Manali-Leh-SriNagar-Chd.-Kanyakumari-Chd. with my wife as Pillion We used the same machine which I have mentioned in my query. We started on 12-09-2015 and were back on 25-10-2015 after covering 9700 kms. I mentioned our trip so that You can let me know the road conditions in compassion to roads we covered. Again note that my wife will be pillion.Will we be able to do those NO ROADS ? Also let me know what is the right time and how many days are required to cover that route. Thanx
At last! Someone with the insight to solve the prolmeb!
Manali-Leh or Srinagar-Leh is cakewalk compared to the pangi valley. by no roads i mean absolutely no roads at all. zero, nada, zilch.
here are some photos for your reference:
https://picasaweb.google.com/117334422084108487068/PangiValleyViaChambaAndSachPass
I am not questioning your riding capabilities or the capability of your wife to sit as pillion, but most places you’ve been to have awesome roads. Having a pillion is not recommended in most areas around pangi just because the road will be bumpy, slippery, covered with rock, sand or boulders or will have areas where you have to push the bike for 1-2kms enroute the sach pass, but that does not mean that you SHOULD NOT TAKE your wife along. By all means, take her! the Pangi valley is BREATHTAKING.
here is some detail:
on the following route:
Manali> Rohtang> Tandi> Udaipur> Tindi> Shaur> KIllar> Satrundi> Bairagarh> Tissa> Chamba.
there is a 1.5km wide nullah that you need to cross just after udaipur. its mostly dry riverbed, but can get very very slushy, at most, your wife will need to walk across while you drive through/push through this. Note: there was a bridge being constructed on this nullah according to the info i got last, but things can always change. You might not see a single water crossing, you might be in for an inundated ride, its all about you being lucky. it took us 3 days to cross the pangi-lahaul stretch in 2010 as it rained non stop for 3 days. By non stop i mean that it would let up for an hour, then continue raining. the nullahs you see on the road were the ones we had to wade through by putting planks on them. there were some which had stranded cars, BUT, my friend went this year and it was boring+dry all through. no nullahs, just rocky terrain.
there are 3 huge nullahs:
Kaala Naala,
Shaur Naala
Sansari naala.
all three of these are almost 200m-1200m wide depending on the flow etc. One of our friends had to turn back from this in 2014,. We went in july. You can see the amount of snow everywhere. it was OUTSTANDING. the road that you see from Bhairagarh(90km from chamba) to Sach pass is exactly the same today except that there is more than one hotel there.
Email me and we can discuss this further.
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djm263(at)gmail (dot)com for further info.
Bikerbaba