India’s Lost World is a ride that started out of mere curiosity one day while dining in a ‘Naga’ restaurant in Bangalore, South India.

Naga food is from Nagaland, way up in the North East of India. I’d never heard of the place until then and neither had many others. The food was delicious if you’re interested.

It’s one of seven states known as the Seven Sisters along with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya.

The North East is an incredible and relatively unknown and undiscovered part of India. It borders on China (Tibet), Burma, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It’s been closed off from the outside world and has had its fair share of troubles and fighting over the years. No one was allowed to go there, not even Indians.

That has all recently changed.

We first rode here back in 2014 as a recce ride and we’ve returned every year since. We see next to no foreigners as no other motorcycle groups come here. It’s reckoned to be one of the most diverse and unexplored regions left on the planet. There are over 200 different tribes and languages. Every 60kms or so, everything changes. The culture, the faces, the food, the scenery and the terrain. The states are a mix of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim religions. There are churches, temples, mosques and monasteries.

Like all places you visit or ride through, the people are the most important. They are all incredibly friendly and that includes the AK47 and machine gun totting local militia we met and chatted with on our journey. They were pleased to see us and hoped we would visit again. It was nice to sit with them and share morning tea. We won’t let them down, we’re coming back.

A huge thanks to everyone that took part. There were many laughs along the way. Some we can talk about and others that are best left alone to protect the guilty.

You know the saying. ‘What goes on tour, stays on tour’.

Alex Pirie
Founder and owner of Nomadic Knights