To witness the best of rolling road in Konkan, the short climbs and the beaches by your road I started my day around 8 am leaving from Satara with some beautiful sunrise view on the way behind some hills raising through the morning fog.Straight rays of raising sun was clearly visible behind the clouds from distance .
Th road goes around the hills , few wind mills were visible from the road on the distance hills. Mostly it was downhill from Satara.the fog was covering the base of the hills like a dense bedsheet.
Theflat road goes along the sugarcane firms.TillSatara it was a six lane, then continued with 4 lane concrete road.It connects from Satara to Kholapur.The road connects with kale-Pachwad road, where we need to continue with the state highway .Most part of the road is covered with trees both the ways.
You can see the sugarcane firms in the villages by the road.I came across many tractors carrying sugarcane to the factories.
On the way you can see some wind mills lining at the top of the hills.You can even see from very near in few part of the road.The road was bit small elevated and have to ascend few climbs till Malkapur.The rolling road and the climbs made me to take a rest under a banyan tree for few minutes after my lunch at Malkapur town.
After few Kms from Malkapur you can fly with the downhill of Amba ghat . I clicked some beautiful views of the ghat with clear visibility of the road going around the ghat.You can see some shops roadside selling Konkani products .I had a Kokum-soda water to make myself cool and it was healthy also instead of drinking some coke.
After the ghat , it started with the beautiful Kokan villages with dense forests around and these rolling road.Ienyoyed the sun set on the road itself. Before reaching to Ratnagiri you have to climb many smaller ghat .It was already dark before I reach.
After around 2 hours of riding at dark I finally reached Ratnarigi town.After having dinner at a hotel I headed to a Malvar beach which was 3 Kms from the town and I pitched my tend on the beach itself over water.
The light house was just on the other end of the beach,and I was enjoying the rotation of the lights .
Few tourists from Mumbai was keen to interact with me about my solo trip as it looks to be strange from them to ride such a long distance solo. A health freak senior man even advise me some of the heath tips to keep my energy maintained throughout day just by taking 2 spoon of honey at the empty stomach in the morning. I was excited when they even captured some clicks with me with my bike.
