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.
Stunning view of morning sun rays penetrating through the clouds and shining some portion of hill was mesmerizing. Hills were also preparing to clear their foggy cover with the morning sun. 
Fig: Shillong to Cherrapunjee route 
Fig:Return from Cherrapunjee towards Shillong
Our ride continued with low intensity rolling road followed by few nice downhill at the beginning till the junction of Dawki and Cherrapunjee . 
Cherrapunjee bridge: Here it begins the platues of Cherrapunjee’s nice and deep lines of hills, anywhere you see only green lines of hills. Moderate chilled wind and the downhill slopes was making my body to be covered with one more layer of cloth. After few hour of cycling..our stomach started gurgling.Can’t resists to take a plate of dal rice with few pices of yammy pork.Then continued our journey through a limestone cave named Lumshynna cave till seven sister falls(Nohkalikai falls) .We were enjoying the downhill almost 10km before we end our one way journey till the fall. 
Imagine a view of earth touching the sky over the green hills, can be observed from that point. If time was not a constrain for us, would have gone for an amazing track through the landscape till the top of the fall. Body also indicating to re-fill with energy by that time, and the immediate stuff was to take few packets of jam before we had our lunch .By the way , few mixed fruit jam and resins were happens to be our stored energy bank. Decided to move back fast, keeping in mind the darkness as . We were yet to realize that that much of the return route was a gradual climb and the sun was about to hide for the day. 
Inclination of the hills and the cold winds was making our pace slow. Every time subconscious mind was insisting us to ride fast, as there was a long way to go back till the city .Darkness and December cold was another part of it .There you can realize the darkness of night unlike the our residential area in city .Barely you meet any cars passing by you. Soon after the sun set, coldness in hills comes drastically. Desperately feeling like, whenever we see any fire , we must stop to warm our body in comfortable working conditions. 
Started feeling that uphill was better than downhill at that point , because downhill speed and the cold air making our uncover body parts numb, specially fingers. Luckily we saw a small village shop with a bonfire to get little warmness .Still we were unable to figure how much to go back to get any nearby place for a halt for the night .Even though the nice tarmac road, due to darkness and the sudden hairpin at the downhill resists me to maintain the speed. After riding for around 15 km in the evening, we took a cup of coffee to make us warm once we have seen the Cherrapunjee bridge with a café .Felt little relaxed thinking we were able to figure out the remaining distance till the city . Around 10km form there we take our halt for that night .We were so desperate for a fire that , just after reaching the resort ,thought of getting a bone fire prioritizing more than the meal even though there was nothing in the stomach. 
Soon after a nice meal with a bowl of smoked pork(tested first time in my life) we sat again at the bonfire gossiping about the local attraction with few local guys. By spending the night in the midst of the beautiful hills with minimal resident, we could able to feel actual hill side atmosphere, making our Cherrapunjee trip more memorable.