Mcleodganj to Manali on Hero Xoom 160 | Day 4 | Himachal Scooter Trip

McLeodganj to Manali on a scooter 🛵 — the FINAL LEG of our Himachal trip is here! Ekta and Kunal ride the Hero Xoom 160 from the Dalai Lama Temple in McLeodganj, complete the sacred Kora parikrama, and then push non-stop through rain, slippery roads and a forced detour all the way to Mandi–Kullu. This is the most honest scooter travel vlog you'll watch today! Did you know McLeodganj is called "Little Lhasa"? 🇹🇮 It's the headquarters of the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and the spiritual home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. We watched the lamas crafting mandalas, joined the divine evening aarti, and walked the 2.5 km Kora parikrama around the temple — one of the most peaceful experiences of our entire trip. 🛵 Bike: Hero Xoom 160 (just crossed 1000+ km on this trip! 🎉) 📍 Route: McLeodganj → Kangra → Mandi → Kamand → Katola → Kullu (Manali next) 👫 Riders: Ekta + Kunal — Indian Couple Travel Vlog 🌧️ Conditions: Heavy rain, slippery NH, detour via the old scenic road 🎒 Setup: Fully loaded scooter, tail bag, two riders, zero support vehicle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (from the real transcript) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Last leg of the trip begins — Dalai Lama Temple plan 00:30 Lamas crafting mandalas + divine aarti experience 01:00 What is Kora parikrama? Buddhist tradition explained 01:30 McLeodganj = Little Lhasa | Tibetan Govt in Exile 02:00 Packing up, Kunal clearing the last errands 02:30 Weather check — rain expected in Mandi after 2 PM 03:00 Route planning, reports of flooded NH stretches 03:30 Hitting the road on the Hero Xoom 160 04:00 Fursat Ganj choice — 4 km steep vs 9 km gentle (we picked 9) 04:30 Passing the Army Officers Mess 05:00 Crossing Kangra district → entering Mandi 05:30 1000 km milestone 🎉 | Kunal's transformation as a rider 06:00 Rain hits hard, raincoats on, "nothing can stop us" 06:30 Mandi reroute → scenic Kamand–Katola road (no tunnels) 07:00 Pausing in the valley to reflect on life 😌 07:30 Crossing IIT Mandi, shoulders aching, rajma rice break 08:00 Ending the day at Katola village with Maggi 🍜 08:30 The real lesson — minimal planning still works 09:00 Ekta + Kunal signing off — you only get one life ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS VLOG ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Hero Xoom 160 honest long-ride review — uphill, downhill, in rain ✅ McLeodganj Dalai Lama Temple visit guide (timings, Kora explained) ✅ Mandi–Kullu road conditions in 2026 — slippery zones, NH detours ✅ Kamand–Katola route — the most scenic alternative to NH-3 ✅ Couple scooter trip planning — luggage, gear, fatigue, rain prep ✅ Best roadside dhaba food on the Mandi–Kullu stretch 🤤 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛵 GEAR & SETUP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Hero Xoom 160 (160cc scooter, 2 riders + luggage) • Full-face helmets, riding jackets, raincoats (a must in Himachal!) • Tail bag setup (a top box is going on the bike next trip 😅) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 WATCH THE FULL HIMACHAL SERIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Episode 1 —    • Touring the Himalayas on a Scooter | Hero ...   ▶️ Episode 2 —    • Touring the Himalayas on a Scooter| Hero X...   ▶️ Episode 3 —    • 3 Shaktipeeth in 1 Day on a Scooter 🛵 Jwal...   ▶️ Episode 4 —    • McLeodGanj, Bhagsu Waterfall & Dharamshala...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👋 IF YOU ENJOYED THIS VLOG ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Smash the LIKE button (makes the algorithm happy 😄) 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for a new travel adventure every week 💬 COMMENT below — where should we take the Xoom next? Spiti? Ladakh? Sikkim? Northeast? #heroxoom160 #mcleodganjtomanali #himachalvlog #scooterride #dalailamatemple #coupletravel #manalivlog #littlelhasa #himachalpradesh #coupletravel #manalivlog #dharamshalavlog #indiantravelvlogger #himalayanroadtrip #scootertouring #himachalpradesh #travelindia #xoomride #biketravel #roadtripindia