5 nights · Friends and slow travellers
Coast to Desert
Wake up by the sea, end up on the salt. Five horizons in six days.
Drive times are indicative, at caravan pace with a chai stop. Pickup and drop in Bhuj.
Day 1 · Bhuj to Mandvi beach
About 1 h 15 min on the road · 58 km
An hour to the sea. Shipyards, the Vijay Vilas palace, sunset on the sand.
Day 2 · Narayan Sarovar
About 4 h on the road · 185 km
West through the hills by Mata no Madh, to the lake and Koteshwar where India ends.
Day 3 · Lakhpat fort
About 45 min on the road · 35 km
Forty minutes up the coast to a walled ghost town above the creek. A lazy day.
Day 4 · Across to Kalo Dungar
About 4 h 15 min on the road · 190 km
The long drive, across the north of Kutch to its highest point.
Day 5 · The White Rann
About 1 h on the road · 50 km
Down onto the salt for the grand finale: sunset, moonrise, stars.
Day 6 · Drop in Bhuj
About 2 h on the road · 85 km
Back to Bhuj by lunch.