My father taught me how to ride a scooter when I was 15 and after that I could ride any two-wheeler. The first bike I rode was the "Java", when I was 16. Riding bikes has been my passion since childhood. As and when I could get hold of a friend's bike, I used to take it around the city. I always enjoyed it. I did a basic course in mountaineering and skiing from the mountaineering institute in Manali. I enjoy all kinds of adventure activities but right now, it is all biking. I like to travel alone to explore new routes for my clients (and make the itineraries interesting for them!).
I think my solo expedition to the Sach Pass (Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh) was the most memorable - and also the most wonderful - experience. Pangi Valley is a remote place and not at all a common biking route but I tried to gather as much information as I could - I started on September 3, 2011, and was back in Manali on September 8. As I came down the pass, it was raining very heavily and I was fully drenched and shivering with cold. The security people at the check post there couldn't believe it when they saw me alone on a bike. They first thought I was a foreigner but when they discovered my true identity, they became pretty excited. One of the officers informed me that I was the first woman in the world to cross the Sach Pass alone on a bike. It was a tough and very challenging journey, but, in the end, it turned out to be the experience of a lifetime.
So far I have been to Kashmir, the whole of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, some parts of Uttar Pradesh and - in the south - Kerala, Karnataka, parts of Tamil Nadu and Konkan-Goa. I'd love to take my bike to the northeast of the country. I have never been abroad so far but I would like to ride in Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan and Burma
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