Rann of Kutch
From BikeNomads
State : Gujarat
Basic Gyaan
Distance : 100kms Notes : Coming via Sanand Viramgam off at Patdi, then Kharaghoda
Alternatively, you can hit Patdi via NH15, coming from Deesa side iirc!
- Best time: Nov-May (In June it rains and gets FLOODED!!). Before Oct end, the Rann does NOT dry up, so be careful.
- The Rann has beautiful yellow flat soil that one can run at high speeds on. Be careful of dark brown mud - that color is wet and can end up jamming the tyre or worse, be quicksand!!
- Carry a sharp instrument like a screw driver, and be prepared to scrape the mud out of the tyres should you enter the Rann from the wrong direction
- Best to hire a local for some 100 bucks for 3 odd hours - they'll take you inside, get you almost lost (away from civilization), bring you back to the salt flats. There you can see how salt is made, and see the salt workers. Legend has it, that their feet are so encased with salt, that even when they die, their calcinated feet do not burn.
- Compass/GPS for the pseud junta.
- Hire a local like above.
- Get in, avoid the marshy salt flats which can jam your wheels, and drive as FAR as you cna still see the salt flats/drying towers (visible for atleast 15-20km).
- Beyond the first 1-2km, you will come across truck tracks - stay with them. Further you will have mounds of baked earth placed on both sides of road such that at one point, you will see the next mound in the distance. That's highway markers for you. It works. Junta have crossed the Rann from Tikar through that route.
In all, a must dekko!
