8 riders started their main ride today for what they had come from Bangalore, the real Rann of Kutch Ride.

We left from the Radisson Blu hotel accompanied by an Isuzu V cross as a backup vehicle given to us by Dr.Praveen Saxena of Ahmedabad Sub Chapter. While crossing the city of Ahmedabad We noticed that the colors of all the big buildings are earthy in nature nothing blaring or gaudy. It had a soothing effect on us. Pretty soon we were in the highway and were heading east, the first stop was the sun temple at modhera, it was a beautiful highly detailed monument, there were a lot of tourists even though it was a week day, next we started towards rann of kutch region, Pretty soon 4 lane highways became 10 feet wide village roads thanks to the creative directions by Google maps, eventually after seeking directions the traditional way by the locals we were off in the right direction, 1st there were bushes with thorns on the sides of the road, and then several “beri ka peds”, few school girls were picking them , this made me reminisce my school days in Gujrat, very soon we were now seeing flatter plain lands and straighter roads, eventually it got so plane that we were like awestruck, being from a hilly and treed region of south India this was mesmerizing to us, soon we found plain desert lands with the horizon line blending into the sky, we stopped several times to take pictures for posterity , as were w were going we reached the road to heaven, it was indeed it was heaven and we reached right at the time to watch the sunset. Here we were welcomed by Mr.Anil Goyal from the Gujrat tourism Department, who accompanied us for the evening and told us so many interesting things about this region, soon we reached out resort in Dhordo, the huts were made up of clay mud, and were very comfortable, the temperature had dropped to 19 centigrade and was quite comfortable, we settled in for the day and after a scrumptious dinner at the cafeteria.