RAO TRAVEL- KUTCH FAMOUS FESTIVAL

The Rannotsav is a rare opportunity to visit the Great Rann of Kutch, a magnificent landscape of dazzling white salt encrusted desert plains. This vast landscape which is one of the world’s largest seasonal wetlands when inundated with water in the monsoons turns into a salt-impregnated flat land in winter. The breathtaking landscape of the Great Rann of Kutch shimmering in the moonlight is the inspiration for the Rannotsav. Gujarat’s Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has often waxed eloquent about the beauty of the white desert on a full moon night. Accommodations and meals are arranged in a tent village purposecreated at Dhordo for the Rannotsav. At this village, there are regular performances and handicraft demonstrations. Gujarat Tourism’s annual event offers a glimpse of the incredibly diverse attractions of Kutch. From the tourist village set up at Dhorodo in the Banni region fringing the Great Rann of Kutch, tourists are taken in camel cart to salt flats of the Great Rann of Kutch, an expanse of about 30,000 square km of salt desert and seasonal marshland that lies between the Gulf of Kutch and the Indus River. The area was once the shallows of the Arabian Sea before geological uplift closed off the connection of the sea, leaving behind a vast lake which turns into a desert in the dry months. Held during the full moon period in winter, this festival gives tourists the rare opportunity to see the Great Rann of Kutch in the moonlight. As the camel carts journey across the plains to the selected site in the white desert, you can witness the brilliance of the desert sunset in the clear blue winter sky.

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