Here's a bike festival that wants to take you back to the basics. So, there are no resorts or homestays but a coming together of bikers and enthusiasts in a rustic setting. The Raigad Bikers Festival in its fourth edition has more participants (from 30 in the first year to 300 now) but keeps to what it started out to do, encourage safe riding in the great outdoors. "We had always heard of great biking events in Goa and wondered why we couldn't use the beautiful coastline we have here," says Prasad Chaulkar, founder, Raigad Bikers Festival.

Tents pitched by the sea with views of the setting sun will add to the experience while locally flavoured food will be part of the plan. Besides, there's a music performance by a bonfire after sunset.