Srinagar Leh Bike Trip

• Start your Trip from Srinagar and pass through Sonmarg, Zojila Pass, Kargil, Fotula Pass, Ulle, Leh, Khardungla, Nubra, Changla, Pangong and conclude your trip in Leh.
• Embark on this fantastic 9 days bike ride starting from Srinagar and ending at Leh.
• During this bike ride, you will cover around 800 km and will reach up to the heights of 18000 feet from the mean sea level.
• In 1989, Srinagar became the main target of the insurgency against Indian rule. The area continues to be a highly politicised hotbed of separatist activity with frequent spontaneous protests and strikes. On 19 January 1990, the  massacre of a minimum of 50 unarmed protestors by Indian forces, and up to 280 by some estimates from eyewitness accounts, set the stage for bomb blasts, shootouts, and curfews that characterised Srinagar throughout the first and mid-1990s.
• Large scale protests were seen following the execution of Afzal Guru in February 2013. In 2016, after the death of militant leader Burhan Wani, there were mass protests in the valley and about 87 protesters were killed by Indian Army, CRPF and police in the 2016 Kashmir unrest.
• temples were destroyed and houses burnt; but a really small minority of pandits still remains within the city. In 2015 protests in Srinagar from local Kashmiri pandits were held so as to precise demands from the govt associated with their official status, temples, and therefore the ability a temple in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.The city is found on both the edges of the Jhelum River, which is named Vyath in Kashmir. The river passes through the town and meanders through the valley, moving onward and deepening within the Wular Lake. The city is understood for its nine old bridges, connecting the 2 parts of the town .

There are a number of lakes and swamps in and around the city. These include the Dal, the Nigeen, the Anchar, Khushal Sar, Gil Sar and Hokersar.

• Hokersar is a wetland situated near Srinagar. Thousands of migratory birds come to Hokersar from Siberia and other regions within the winter season. Migratory birds from Siberia and Central Asia use wetlands in Kashmir as their transitory camps between September and October and again around spring.
• These wetlands play an important role in sustaining an outsized population of wintering, staging and breeding birds.
  Hokersar is 14 km north of Srinagar, and may be a world class wetland cover 13.75 km2 including lake and marshy area. It is the foremost accessible and well-known of Kashmir’s wetlands which include Hygam, Shalibug and Mirgund.
• A record number of migratory birds have visited Hokersar in recent years.
  Birds found in Hokersar are migratory ducks and geese which include brahminy duck, tufted duck, gadwall, garganey, graylag , mallard, common merganser, northern pintail, common pochard, ferruginous pochard, red-crested pochard, ruddy shelduck, northern shoveller, common teal, and Eurasian wigeon