Bir Billing Trek and Paragliding

If you are an adventure seekers and looking to make short refreshing & thrilling trip in the hills of Himachal Pradesh then Bir Billing Trek and Paragliding should be your perfect choice. It is a 3 days and 2 night plan which inclues, trek, waterfall, camping and an amazing paragliding experience. Bir also knows the “Paragliding Capital of India” is a small town village located in the Joginder Nagar Valley of Himachal Pradesh. The place is best suitable for ecoturism, spiritual studies and meditation. It is also a home of the Tibetan refugee settlement with several Buddhist monastries and magnificient stupas. While Billing offers the launching pad for paragliding, Bir villages happens to be the landing site, therefore the name of the place used in conjunction as Bir Billing.

Bir is located in the mid of Dharamshala (70km) and Manali  (220km) and Billing is situated to the north of Bir. If there is a location where you can enjoy one of the best paragliding experience in India then the site is Bir Billing. Here every glider is manuevered by a pilot and you just need to sit, relax and click pictures. Some say, it were the best 25min of their life. The another great highlights of Bir Billing are the sprawling, peaceful and welcoming monasteries. The two famous monasteries of the region are the Palpung Sherabling Monastery and the Dzongsar Shedra Monastery. Even though the visit to these monasteries are not included in the plan, it would be a great experience to explore these monasteries for couple of more bucks. If you rent a bike or hire a car, the road is all yours.

Short Itinerary

Day 1: 

• Arrive at Bir guest house
• Cab ride and a trek to Waterfall
• Return to Guest house
• Tirthan colony market exploration in the evening
• Dinner at the guest house
• Night stay in Bir

Day 2: 

• Wake up in the morning
• Have breakfast
• Start trek to Billing – 6km  
• Visit Waterfall on the way
• Have packed lunch on the way
• Reach Billing Campsite
• Have dinner with Bonfire
• Sleep in tents

Day 3:  

• Wakeup early
• Have breakfast at Billing
• Setup your gears for Paragliding
• Launch from Billing
• Fly for 25mins
• Land at Bir
• Explore Shiva Baijnath Temple
• Depart from Bir

Price Inclusions

• Breakfast – 2nd Day & 3rd Day
• Lunch – 2nd Day
• Dinner – 1st Day & 2nd Day
• Comfortable accommodation
• Travel Transporttion to the waterfall.
• Paragliding Gears & Experience
• Local Sightseeing

Price Exclusions

• Transport Arrangement to Bir
• Any kind of insurance.
• Porters could be arranged and the costing is borne by the Participant

Stay

• Accomodation in Guest house on 1st Day and Tent Camp on 2nd Day
  • (Hotel can also be arrange as per your request provided the availability) 

Meal

• We offer Hot Vegetarian food.
  • Breakfast – 2nd Day & 3rd Day
  • Lunch – 2nd Day
  • Dinner – 1st Day & 2nd Day

Detail Itinerary

Detailed Itinerary of Bir Billing Trek and Paragliding

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Day 1: Arriving at Bir

Reach Bir and our representative will take you to our Guest House. You can fresh up here and pack your day pack pag for today’s exploration. The first stop is a beautiful waterfall. We will get in our cab and head to waterfall base from which it is a 1.5km trek to the waterfall. You can spend some time here while enjoying the flowing water and taking pictures with the waterfall.  After that we will come back to the guest house for freshup and chai. In the evening we we explore the Tirthan Colony Market. It is small town night market where you can check out the cafes, try the local cuisines and do street shopping. The evening walk to the market is very life liking and refershing experience.  Post the market exploration we will come back to the guest house for hot delicious dinner and night stay in the guest house.

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Day 2: Trek from Bir to Billing

Today we are going to trek to the highest paragliding site in whole India. It would be a 6km trek through dense forest and waterfall. The trek ascend gradually but not too steep. We will have our lunch beside a beautiful waterfall and then continue our trek till we reach the best paragliding site in India. We will settle in, fresh up and have a cup of coffee/tea while enjoying the beautiful valley beneath us. The whole valley looks like a green carpet of dense forest trees and meadows.

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In the evening we will put on some music and lit up the campfire to warm our self. This is the perfect time to know more about our trek leaders and travel companions who would be sharing the campsite with us. Post which we will have our padahi dinner and sleep in our tents with blankets.

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Day 3: Paragliding from Billing

Today is going to be the best day of our whole trip. Today we are going to launch our parachutes from the highest paragliding site ie Billing and enjoy the experience of flying in the sky like a bird. So, wake up early and try to catch the morning sunrise from the place. its the most rejuvinating experience of gazing through the rising sun from Billing.

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We will have our breakfast and setup our paragliding gears. Each glider is maneuvered by certified and experience paraglider guide. He will inform you when to start running and when to lift up your legs while landing. You just need to sit, relax and click some photos from your gopro while floating through the clouds of Himachal Pradesh. We promise you, it would be the best 25mins of your life you ever spend flying above the ground. Quick Note: If you do not have a gopro, you can rent it from our paragliding guide for cheap price.

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The bird eye view of small house, mountains, valley and waterfalls is just amazing and cannot be expressed in words. We would land our parachutes in Bir and then head ahead for visit Lord Shiva Baijnath Temple for blessings. 

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