The credit of converting the dream of Gopal Sharma of Ganga Parikrama into a reality goes to 53 year old, Col Manoj Keshwar (Mike). He, single handedly ran the operation Atulya Ganga Parikrama 2020-21.
Mike stepped out of uniform after command of his Regiment ( a Victoria Cross Regiment), to pursue a passion of his life … Road Tripping around the world. He raised his passion start-up Viktorianz, a bespoke Adventure Travel Company focused on adventure road trips and treks around the world.
His adventure travel company of about 6 years, has grown rapidly to run road expeditions in 19 countries covering Indian subcontinent, South East Asia, Europe and ANZ Region. He leads a crack team of Ride Captains, who have decades of road trips experience to conduct motorcycle operations within a Geography and trans-border.
Their recent landmark 53 day, 22000 kms, road trip from India to London has been the talk of town in road trips circle.He has over 100,000 international riding kilometres under his belt around the world and still counting. The future road trips projects in the pipeline are – TransAfrica, Trans Australia and Delhi to Vladivostok.
The causes of Martyrs and Veterans are at the heart of Mike, and he regularly contributes to them. He leads a ride to a battlefield each year to pay homage to the Martyrs … They did Kargil last year and a ride to Rezangla War Memorial.