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Bir & McLeodganj Trip

5 Days / 6 Nights • 20–26 Nov or 4–10 Dec 2026 • Girls-only & mixed groups 📍 Delhi → Bir → Billing → McLeodganj → Triund → Bhagsu → Delhi Burn your fear. Connect with yourself. Girls-only or mixed group.
Bir & McLeodganj Trip

Five days in the Dhauladhar with people you haven't met yet. Ride your own scooty through tea gardens, face your fears in a guided Burn Your Fear session, let singing bowls quiet your head, and sleep in a tent on the Triund ridge at 2,850 m. Two separate groups (girls-only, or mixed) on two dates, Delhi to Delhi. Bring warm socks. We'll take care of the rest.

Day-wise itinerary

Day 0 · Friday · DelhiThe night it begins. Everyone turns up a little nervous. That's normal. Your trip captain will be waiting with name tags and a very questionable playlist.
20:30Meet your trip captain and your group at the Delhi boarding point
21:00Your pocket diary is handed over, with your name on the cover
21:30Board the overnight Volvo to Bir. Window seat, if you're quick (about 520 km, 11 to 12 hours)
Diary promptWhat are you hoping to leave behind in the mountains?
Day 1 · Saturday · BirKeys in your hand. You'll wake to the bus winding through tea gardens. After a shower and a slow café breakfast, someone hands you the keys to a scooty.
09:30Arrive in Bir. Check in, shower, breathe
10:30Breakfast at one of Bir's little cafés
12:30Pick up your scooties: helmets on, a short safety briefing
14:00Ride to the Tibetan Colony and Chokling Monastery. Spin a few prayer wheels
16:00The Chowgan tea gardens and the landing site at golden hour, as the paragliders come down. Shoes off on the grass
19:00Circle night: games, silly questions and the first real conversations
20:30Dinner together
Diary promptWrite down one thing you noticed today that you'd normally walk straight past.
Day 2 · Sunday · Billing → BirBurn your fear. This morning, some of you will run off a mountain. In the evening, we sit down with a facilitator and face the fears that don't need a mountain at all.
08:00Breakfast
09:30Paragliding from Billing for those who've added it (depends on wind and weather). Everyone else rides up to watch the take-offs
13:00Meet at the landing site and swap stories over lunch
15:00Ride to Palpung Sherabling Monastery, in a quiet pine forest outside Bir
17:30Burn Your Fear: a guided blindfold session where you feel every emotion as it comes, held by a trained facilitator
20:00Dinner and a bonfire. It'll be a talkative one
Diary promptWhat's one fear you're done carrying?
Day 3 · Monday · Bir → McLeodganjA town of monks and cafés. We leave Bir through the Palampur tea gardens and climb into McLeodganj. Tonight ends with singing bowls and the deepest rest of the trip.
08:00Breakfast and check-out
09:30Drive to McLeodganj, stopping at the Palampur tea gardens (about 70 km, 2.5 to 3 hours)
13:00Check in. Lunch at a Tibetan café
14:30Scooties again: the Dalai Lama Temple and a slow kora walk around it
16:30Ride up to Naddi for sunset over the Dhauladhar
19:00Sound healing: singing bowls, blankets, eyes closed
20:30Dinner. It's thukpa weather
Diary promptWhen did you last feel completely still? Write about today, or that day.
Day 4 · Tuesday · Dharamkot → TriundUp. Triund isn't a hard trek, but it is an honest one: 9 km uphill, with the Dhauladhar standing in front of you like a wall of snow at the top. That's where we sleep tonight, in tents.
07:30Breakfast
08:30Walk up through Dharamkot to the trailhead
09:30Begin the guided Triund trek (about 9 km, 4 to 5 hours, moderate)
14:00Reach the ridge. Pitch camp, hot chai
17:00Sunset over the Kangra valley
19:00Campfire dinner, music and stories by the fire. Nights up here drop close to freezing
Diary promptWrite a letter to the person you'll be next year. Seal it. Open it then.
Day 5 · Wednesday · Triund → Bhagsu → DelhiLetters home. The sun touches the snow peaks first, pink and then gold, while you stand there in your sleeping bag holding a cup of chai.
06:30Sunrise on the Dhauladhar, straight from your tent
07:30Breakfast at camp
08:30Walk down to Bhagsu waterfall
13:00Lunch in Bhagsu
14:30Free time for cafés and the Tibetan market
17:00Closing circle: one note for every person on this trip
19:30Board the overnight Volvo to Delhi (about 480 km)
Diary promptRead your first page again. What would you tell that version of you now?
Day 6 · Thursday · Delhi07:00 Back in Delhi. Hugs, one last group photo, and a WhatsApp group that won't go quiet for weeks. Plan your onward travel after 11:00.

Why this trip

Maybe you've been waiting for your friends to be free. Maybe you just need a few days where nobody needs anything from you. Either way, the mountains don't need you to bring anyone along.

On the first night you'll be strangers on a bus out of Delhi, sharing a playlist. By the second evening someone will make you laugh until your stomach hurts. On the last morning you'll be planning a reunion, and meaning it.

Two groups. Pick yours.

  • Girls-only group: 20 women, led by a woman trip captain from Delhi to Delhi.
  • Mixed group: 20 solo travellers of every gender, no fixed ratio.
  • The two groups never mix. Each has its own bus, its own stays, its own trip captain and its own WhatsApp group. Same itinerary, same price.

Two dates

  • Trip 1: Fri 20 Nov to Thu 26 Nov 2026
  • Trip 2: Fri 4 Dec to Thu 10 Dec 2026
  • Both groups run on both dates: four separate departures, 20 seats each. You pick your group and your date when you apply.

Two sessions to go inward. One climb to go up.

  • Burn Your Fear (Bir): a guided blindfold session, led by a trained facilitator, where you feel every emotion as it comes.
  • Sound healing (McLeodganj): singing bowls, blankets and complete stillness. The deepest rest of the trip.
  • Triund trek & camp: 9 km up to the ridge, a night in tents facing the snow, and sunrise from your sleeping bag.

Your own wheels

Scooties are included for exploring Bir and McLeodganj at your own pace: tea gardens, monasteries, sunset points. Can't ride? Hop on the back with a friend you met yesterday.

Your pocket diary

On the bus out of Delhi you'll get a small diary with your name on it. Nobody else reads it. Each evening there's a question waiting for you. On the last day you'll go back to the first page, and you might hardly recognise the person who wrote it.

About paragliding

It isn't included and can be added separately. But Bir is one of the best places in the world to fly, and you're already here. We'd strongly suggest you add it.

A few honest things

  • Rooms are shared only with travellers of the same gender, from your own group.
  • To ride a scooty you'll need a valid two-wheeler driving licence. Helmets are given and must be worn. If you'd rather not ride, you can sit pillion.
  • Late November and early December are early winter. Days are pleasant, evenings are cold, and Triund can drop below freezing at night. The December trip runs colder: pack for it.
  • Paragliding depends on wind and weather. If you add it, we'll help you book a slot with a certified operator.
  • The Burn Your Fear session is run by a trained facilitator. Every activity is your choice: you can sit out anything, with no questions asked.
  • The Triund trek is about 9 km one way and suits first-timers with basic fitness. A few walks or stair climbs in the weeks before will help.
  • Campsites at Triund run on a daily forest-department quota, and we book ours in advance.
  • Timings are a guide and may shift with traffic and weather.

How to join

This isn't a book-now trip. We keep each group small, and we want everyone on that bus to feel safe and comfortable with the people around them, so we read every application before anyone is confirmed. Pick your group and date, apply, we review (we may call you for a quick chat), and if you're selected you pay a ₹4,000 advance to confirm your seat. The balance is paid as per the schedule we share with you.

Coming alone? Most people do.

Inclusions & exclusions

What's included

  • Volvo from Delhi to Bir, and McLeodganj to Delhi
  • Transfer from Bir to McLeodganj
  • Scooties for exploring Bir and McLeodganj
  • 4 nights' stay: 2 in Bir, 1 in McLeodganj and 1 camping at Triund (rooms shared only with travellers of the same gender, from your own group)
  • Daily breakfast and dinner, except breakfast on arrival day in Bir and dinner on the day we leave for Delhi
  • Burn Your Fear blindfold session with a trained facilitator
  • Sound healing session in McLeodganj
  • Guided Triund trek, with tents, sleeping bags and forest entry fees
  • Your pocket diary
  • A trip captain from Delhi to Delhi (a woman trip captain for the girls-only group)

What's not included

  • Paragliding: available as an add-on, and strongly suggested
  • Fuel for the scooties
  • Lunches
  • Travel to and from the Delhi boarding point
  • Snacks, drinks and café visits
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses, and anything not listed as included

What to pack

  • A padded or down jacket, plus a fleece
  • Thermals, top and bottom
  • Trek shoes with good grip
  • Woollen cap, gloves and socks
  • Your driving licence
  • Headlamp or torch
  • A 1-litre water bottle
  • Power bank
  • Sunscreen, sunglasses, lip balm
  • Personal medicines and a government photo ID