The best way to explore the Kathmandu Valley is on a mountain bike. Nepal’s diverse terrain is a mountain biker’s dream adventure comes true. Mountain biking offers an environmentally sound way of exploring this magnificent country, its landscape and living heritage. There are plenty of dirt roads and trails in Nepal to meet every mountain biker’s wildest fantasy.
Mountain bikes are available for rent by the day or longer in many of the bicycle rental outlets in Nepal and around the city. The adventure starts from Balaju to the west of Kathmandu city, traverses the hill resort of Kakani or Shivapuri, and then descends back to Kathmandu.