Trip Overview
Bhutan Travel Club is a bike-fanatic company as the owners and staff are avid mountain bikers who love showing our visitors the best singletrack trails around the Thimphu city. Grab your bike fromour office in Motithang and ride on the Wangditse XC trail that starts from the radio tower at Sangaygang. The trail goes straight up the ridge and about 500 m the trail levels out while crossing an open ridge with a field of prayer flags. The views of the city are excellent from here. Continue up the ridge. The trail to Chhokhortse continues up, at times to the left, then again along the ridge. It leads through open grassy areas, oak undergrowth and blue pines. Take the trail that descent through beautiul bluepine forests with many prayer flags until you reach Wangditse goenpa. Along the way there are good views of the Dzong and the underlying Thimphu valley. Descend down to the radio tower and visit the Taken Reserve Centre to see the national animal of Bhutan.
Continue down to the city and fuel-up with a nice lunch. After that continue riding to Kuensel Phodrangand ride for 5 km on gradual ascent to reach the biggest Buddha Statue of Bhutan overlooking Thimphu valley. After visiting the temple inside the gigantic Statue, continue on the singletrack trail inside Kuensel Phodrang Nature Park, which offers some great XC technical climbs and descends, and exit to Motithang using the newly constructed multi-purpose trail. (Time 6-8 hours).