Rudra Adventures — Attraction in Himachal Pradesh

Mostly referred as "Paragliding Capital of India", Bir is also a noted centre for ecotourism, spiritual studies and meditation. Bir is also home to a Tibetan refugeesettlement with several Buddhist monasteriesand a large stupa. While Billing is the takeoff site for paragliding and Bir for landing; collectively it is known "Bir Billing". Bir was ruled by the Pal dynasty of the Chandarvanshi lineage. The last Raja or Rai was Raizada Prithi Pal, who was a descendant of the Rajas of Bhangahal, who appear to have maintained their rights until the time of Raja Prithi Pal in the early part of the eighteenth century. Raja Prithi Pal fell victim to his father-in-law, Raja Sidh Sen, who in 1728 invited him to Mandi on the pretext of seeking his assistance against the Raja of Suket. He was kindly received, but within a month of his arrival he was beguiled into the Damdama Fort, and there murdered. It is said his body was duly burnt, but his head was buried in a tank facing the Mandi Raja's palace. A pillar was erected on the spot, and a light was kept burning on it for years. Sidh Sen's object in murdering Raja Prithi Pal was to seize his territory, but in this he only partially succeeded. The forts at Jagapur, Tika Thana and the Patgana of Nir, with eighteen villages of Ilaga Chuhar (all of them until then forming part of the Bhangahal kingdom) were annexed to Mandi. Subsequently, Sidh Sen sttempted to seize Karanpur, which also belonged to Bhangahal, but he was repulsed by Raja Raghunath Pal who had succeeded his father Raja Prithi Pal. In a second invasion, he penetrated as far as Kotharli Gulu, then in Bhangahal, but Raghunath Pal was able, with the assistance of Raja Thedi Singh of Kulu, not only to check his advance, but also to beat him back with considerable loss. The Mughal Emperors always appreciated the loyalty of the Bhanghal chiefs, and when the news of repeated aggression of the Mandhi Raja on Bhangahal reached the Emperor in Delhi, he deputed Adina Beg, Governor of Jullundur, to drive him off. But the Khan died on the road at Dinanagar in 1732. The affair ended unfortunately for Raghunath Pal, who went to meet the Governor, as Sham Sher Singh, then Raja of Mandi, took advantage of his absence to seize the much-coveted ilaqa of Karanpur. Raghunath Pal died in 1749, and was succeeded by his son, Dalip Pal, whose reign was rendered memorable by a combined, though unsuccessful, attack made on Bhangahal by the Rajas of Mandi, Kullu, Kahlur, Nalagarh, Guler and Jaswan. The united forces of these chiefs encamped at Tika Changar, and made an attempt to capture the Raja and his brother, Mian Bhim Pal, but were eventually driven back with great loss. the Raja commemorated the victory by erecting several mounds composed of the heads of his slaughtered foes. One of these mounds exists in the pine forest in Bir, and another stands on the banks of river Pun river within the limits of Bhangahal. Bir taaluqa was annexed in 1779 by the Raja of Kulu shortly before the death of Dalip Pal, whose son, Man pal, succeeded only to the taaluqas of Lanod and Paprola. He died on his way to Delhi, whither he was proceeding with the object of enlisting the sympathies of the Mughal Emperor in an attempt to make the recovery of his patrimony. The Rajas of Kangra and Guler took advantage of Man Pal's absence to seize villages and lands, Kangra appropriating Lanod and Paprola and Guler the remaining property. Man Pal's widow and her infant son, Uchal Pal sought refuge at Rehlu with Raja Rai Singh of Chamba, who gave her a home and allowed her a...

I went there on 25th January. I prebooked the whole package with shivrama camp.it include stay, breakfast, paragliding everything. Adventure starts right from the beginning when you are heading towards the top of the mountain. You have to book a cab to go to the top. Driver are so professional that they don't even slow the car on turning point. They drive so fast that you can't even leave the handle for a single minute. And yes adventure will be more interesting if you book a jeep. We booked a jeep. It will take 20-25 minute to reach at the top. The only reason i was able to click photographs during that journey was because as this was the season time so there was a traffic jam. Must take gloves and a cap if you are going in winter season. It will help you during the whole journey of paragliding. It will be best if you do the paragliding at the time of sunset. Paragliding is about 15 to 20 minutes. It will be one of the life changing experience. You will get bored after 15 minutes. So you have to jump off from the cliff. It takes courage to jump off from the cliff. That will be the most daring point. There will be a professional paraglider with you so you don't need to worry about handling and stuff. They will give you a gopro to handle so that you can capture every moment. You can tell him to do some adventure stunts. Paragliding cost you rupees max 1500. At the end they will ask money for the photographs and video. A video cost rs 500 and a photograph cost you rs 100/photo. That is expensive. What we did is we took a video at rs 500. And we took a screenshot from the video to post on social media. It was the breathtaking experience. You will...

My wife and I went for Paragliding in Bir with them. We had an extremely bad and unsafe experience, glad to be alive: The ride to Billing( which is the take off site) was extremely rash and unsafe, we were seated behind the pick up van in open, the ride was bumpy, with passes done in narrow lanes, this is something I can still write off, but the trauma was yet to begin As soon as we arrived, while I was given some basic training, my wife was not given any experience of what one has to do while take off, for first timers it is extremely difficult to run from a rocky slope and tremendous air pressure, my wife could not run and her pilot was inexperienced to maneuver the glider without falling, she had too many bruises from the rough take off We had paid 2500 rs for Go Pro video, we had to wait for more than an hour for transfer of our videos to our phone/ drive. When we came home; we realized we had not been given my wife’s video, when I went back to collect it, they told me they had already deleted it. Lack of professionalism and inexperienced pilots!! We are truly glad...