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Solo bike ride to the desert in Rajasthan in my Mahindra Mojo

19th March 2025, 18:03 by Kanad Kalasur

During Diwali holidays, I decided to do a solo trip in my trustworthy and rarest of the rare “Mahindra Mojo”.

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This trip was done in Nov’22 but I penned down late. During Diwali holidays, I decided to do a solo trip in my trustworthy and rarest of the rare “Mahindra Mojo”. Initially the plan was to do a roundtrip from Pune to Chitkul but fate had some plans.

21st Nov: Pune to Dhule – I started from Pune around 12am in the midnight. I took the Pune – Nashik Highway till Nashik and then took the road to Indore. The Road condition was ok. Reached Dhule around 5am and decided to take a nap and stayed in a roadside hotel.

22nd Nov: Dhule to Ajmer – Started around 10am in the morning and managed to reach Ajmer by 10pm. Roads were in extreme great condition. But unfortunately, the rear tire got punctured. Here I decided not to continue till Chitkul as the tires were not in great shape. SO I decided to turn towards Jaisalmer. Searching a puncture repairing shop was challenge because of Diwali Holidays. Traffic was also sparse during the time, but somehow managed to find a shop where the rear tire was repaired and then I got into a hotel for night stay.

23rd Nov: Ajmer to Jaisalmer – Left Ajmer around 7am in the morning and after half an hour left the main highway and took a state highway (as per Google Map) towards Jodhpur. Unfortunately, the rear tire again had developed a puncture. But this time I was lucky to find a tire repair shop and got it fixed. I was bit worried now that how am I going to cover the journey, but you’re you are highly motivated, dauting task seems a bit easy. The roads were really in great condition in rural Rajasthan. I crossed Jodhpur, then Pokhran before reaching Jaisalmer. Reached around 8pm and struggled a little to get a good accommodation. Had dinner from the roof top restaurant with the view of the Jaisalmer Fort.

Somewhere on the way to Jaisalmer

Pokhran in the Map (I was thrilled to see the name)

Roof Top Dinner with the view of Jaisalmer Fort

24th Nov: Jaisalmer to Ahmedabad - Started from Jaisalmer around 5am in the morning towards Tanot Mata Temple. Weather was chill and roads were the butter smooth. After reaching the temple had the blessings of Goddess and then I headed straight towards Longewala War Memorial. “Oh my God” what a road BRO has made. It was fully passing thru the desert. After reaching the war memorial at Longewala, paid my tribute to our brave soldiers. Now I took the road (not available in Google Maps at that time) constructed by BRO as Bharatmala Project. I started going towards south of Rajasthan in Munabao. The distance was around 300 kms, there were only 2 Cars crossed in the entire section. The road was damm empty, but in great shape. The road got ended suddenly as I was approaching the last 40 km. I had to detour thru a small village for 5kms and then I was supposed to board the Highway again. But man, the last 100 mtr stretch was passing thru desert (road full of sand). My Mojo got stuck, and it took appx 2 hrs for me to take my bike out of the sand. Another great thing is that the tank capacity of Mojo is 21 ltrs and that helped me as there were no petrol pump in the entire 300 km stretch. Finally, I made it to Munabao but unfortunately the border was not allowing any civilians to see the International Border. Then I decided to head straight towards Ahmedabad and that was really a long stretch of 480 kms. Finally reached Ahmedabad around 1 am and stayed in a hotel.

Mojo Stuck in the desert for 2 hrs

Bharatmala Pariyojna maintained by BRO

25th Nov: Ahmedabad to Pune – The last leg of my journey. I decided that I won’t take any halt and will straight continue till Pune. I started around 8 am in the morning and followed the route till Pune (Baroda – Surat – Navsari – Nashik – Pune). Finally managed to reached Pune at around 8 pm in the evening.

Few Highlights of the Trip:
Total Distance Covered – 3200 kms
No. of States Covered – 4 states
Total Journey Time – 5 days

Few Random Clicks:
Wild Camel

Spotted a Nilgai

Me with my Mile Munching Mojo