Bir Billing travel guide

Paragliding capital with Tibetan monasteries and tea gardens. Most people stay 2–3 nights. Best months: Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov.

Highlights

• Tandem paragliding from Billing
• Chokling and Sherab Ling monasteries
• Bir tea gardens
• Baijnath temple

Things to do in Bir Billing

• Tandem paragliding from Billing to Bir · 2 h · about ₹3,000 per person. Flights of 15–30 min from the 2,400 m Billing launch to the Bir landing site. Choose a registered operator with insured pilots; flights stop in the monsoon (roughly mid-July to mid-September) and in strong wind.
• Chokling and Sherab Ling monasteries · 2.5 h · free
• Bir tea garden walk · 1.5 h · free
• Billing ridge sunset drive · 2.5 h · about ₹1,000 per person
• Baijnath Shiva temple · 1.5 h · free. A 13th-century stone temple about 30 min from Bir.
• Bir colony cafés and Deer Park Institute · 2 h · about ₹600 per person

Where to stay in Bir Billing

• Bir Tibetan colony guesthouses and hostels (budget, ₹800–₹2,500 a night): Walk to the landing site, monasteries and cafés.
• Cottages and small hotels around Chowgan and the tea gardens (mid, ₹3,000–₹7,000 a night): Quieter rooms among tea and fields, 5 min by car from the landing site.
• Heritage and boutique stays near Bir (premium, ₹7,000–₹15,000 a night): Restored old houses and small resorts in the countryside.

What to eat

• Tibetan bread, momos and café food: Bir colony cafés
• Kangra green tea: Bir tea garden shops

Getting there

• ~2h to Dharamshala and DHM
• ~5h to Manali

Good to know

• Paragliding is suspended during the monsoon (roughly mid-July to mid-September) and flights depend on the wind any day.

Himachal Pradesh itineraries with Bir Billing

• McLeod Ganj and Bir: Tibetan culture and paragliding · 6 days, Dharamshala & McLeod Ganj → Bir Billing · from ₹23,475 per person, base estimate before flights. The Dalai Lama's hill town, a Triund trek with Dhauladhar views, then Bir's monasteries and a tandem flight off Billing ridge.
• Adventure Himachal: Manali and Bir · 8 days, Manali → Bir Billing · from ₹40,500 per person, base estimate before flights. Rafting on the Beas, paragliding at Solang, snow beyond the Atal Tunnel and a week-ending flight from one of the world's best paragliding sites.
• Backpacker Himachal: Parvati valley, Manali and Bir · 9 days, Kasol & Parvati Valley → Manali → Bir Billing · from ₹44,050 per person, base estimate before flights. Buses, cafés and treks: the Kheerganga hot spring above the Parvati valley, Old Manali's hangouts and a paragliding flight in Bir.
• Grand Himachal: Shimla to Dalhousie · 13 days, Shimla → Manali → Bir Billing → Dharamshala & McLeod Ganj → Dalhousie & Khajjiar · from ₹61,525 per person, base estimate before flights. A long loop through the best-known hill towns: Shimla, Manali and the Atal Tunnel, paragliding at Bir, Tibetan McLeod Ganj and Dalhousie's forests and meadows.