Since I’ve moved to Pune, I had heard a lot about Kas the valley of flowers. Last year, got a chance to visit the long awaited place finally. But we were not fortunate enough to get to see all type of flowers. Hence I was desperately wanting for the next year to arrive, so that the incomplete wish would be satisfied at once. After a tiring trip to Goa, visit to Kas on next weekend would have been too hectic, but the fear of repetition of last year’s incident enforced us to leave Pune and head towards Satara district eventually. This time we were visiting Kas with bikers group ‘The Bladerunnerz’.
We gathered at our meeting point in Pune at around 5 o clock. There were 12 bikes in all, heading towards the valley full of attractions. Riding at a speed of 100 was like an easy task for almost every rider among us. Fogs had covered the highway for almost whole the distance. We took a halt for small appetite, a tea and couple of Samosas. It was necessary because, up on the plateau you would not get any stall or hawkers selling any food item, as the property is not owned by Indian Government as a national heritage.
Now that we had entered Satara city, the roads were small and a bit crowd even at 8 o clock in Saturday morning. The route was fresh in mind, as I felt like it was the last month only, when we had visited Kas. The beautiful turns and long tails of roads were fascinating. Soon the point came, where you get to see flat earth on both sides and in the mid, there exists the long straight black road calling you ahead.
If one random morning, you wake in a bed of flowers, the delicate ones, how would you feel? Marvelous right? I had the same feeling, when I got down off the bike and rushed to the blanket of wild flowers. The cameras started clicking rapidly as soon as we got down. There we could see many types of wildflowers. One of them is called Mickey as its yellow color and shape matches exactly with a cartoon character ‘Mickey Mouse’. One was a very tiny flower having looks like cotton but having small bunch soft prickles as its petals. One was lavender colored cylindrical flower having many small petals. It’s really difficult to mention all of the flowers in here; hence a pictorial treat will be appropriate.
As we had reached there well before the time when weekend-rush starts flowing towards Kas, we got to see many areas easily. It rained the night before Saturday, which made the soil muddy, where vehicles could not reach. We reached such areas and enjoyed the beauty of the blanket of flowers. It was irresistible for us to click many photographs of flowers, we with flowers in background, bikes put in a semi-circle, etc. After this photo session, we moved towards the Kas lake.
Compared with the last time I visited Kas lake, the crowd was much less in number. The lake was clear like glass. We could see the soil underneath the water. As there were very new people in the trip, we took an introduction round for everyone. The riders were very well experienced ones. The pillions were pretty enthusiastic, considering it’s quite boring to sit idle on the back seat with no challenge.
After delightful visit to Kas lake, we headed back to Pune, though some of us went to visit a famous windmills in that area. The weekend was becoming used advantageously with a nice experience because of fewer crowds. Perfect trip it was!
