The side of the road beckoned a waiting tuk-tuk back to the hotel to rest. The pen "Fun" www.biquge.info ended on the second day of Jodhpur. 14~124 Jodhpur Today is the 14th day of travel to India, the third and last day in Jodhpur. During the day, I chartered a bus to the countryside and visited a pottery workshop, a weaving workshop, and a village. Stay in Jodhpur.

Yesterday I told the owner of the hotel that there is still a day of maneuvering time in Jodhpur, do you have any recommended places to go, and the boss said that it is recommended that you charter a jeep to go to the suburbs in the south of the city to see several cultural projects with local characteristics there, one is the pottery workshop, you can watch the pottery process.

The second is a traditional village called Bishnoy, where you can get up close and personal with wildlife, and the third is a textile workshop. The round trip is about 60 kilometers and costs 1500. For pottery and weaving, he is generally interested in snowfall, and watching wild animals is his favorite for snowfall shots. So, yes, set off immediately after breakfast at the hotel.

The driver speaks some English. Before I came to India, I thought that Indians could speak English, because English is the official language, and India was once a British colony. Moreover, it is said that the reason why Indians are better at finding jobs than Longguo people in some developed countries is because of their better English. However, after coming to India this time, I experienced it on the spot.

There are not many ordinary people in India who speak English well. The common people all speak Hindi. After leaving the city, Jodhpur passed by a village, and many people stood on the street talking to each other, and Xueluo thought that he was in trouble or a strike, and when he asked the driver, he replied that it was not, and that he was waiting here to find a job. Oh.

The first place where the driver took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu was the "pottery workshop". Located on the roadside of a village on the outskirts of the city, there are many large clay pots neatly placed at the entrance of the courtyard. The room inside is where the pottery blanks are made. There are a lot of jugs piled up outside the house.

It seems that the pottery produced by this workshop is not mainly handicrafts, but pottery used in villages and towns, mainly to hold water. The appearance is almost the same, and the level of craftsmanship is relatively rough. The driver knew the potter, said hello, and walked into the house with Xueluo and Liu Jingshu.

From the outside, the small house is small and basic. After Xueluo and Liu Jingshu entered the house and stood still, the old man began to demonstrate to Xueluo and Liu Jingshu how to make a clay pot blank, which Xueluo had seen on TV: a turntable below, on which the clay was placed and the rotational force below was used.

Use your hands and simple tools to make the clay into the desired shape. It seems simple, but without a certain amount of practical accumulation, it is impossible to learn it immediately. The driver asked Xueluo and Liu Jingshu if they wanted to try it, and when they saw the soup and water, they were worried about soiling their clothes, so they refused. On this table are some small pottery that is considered a handicraft.

The workmanship is very rough, I thought it was not easy to sell, and I wanted to help solve three or two difficulties, but when I asked the price, it was quite expensive, and the old man refused to bargain, so he did it. Bishnoi is a Hindu sect that has been following the teachings of the Imam for 500 years, emphasizing the protection of the environment before environmental protection became the mainstream consciousness of society. They regard all animal life as sacred and are willing to sacrifice themselves to protect them.

As a result, there is a high density of wildlife and can be close to humans, such as the Indian antelope, blue wildebeest, gazelle and desert fox. Not far from the pottery workshop, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu came to a very simple village, and the driver took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu into the courtyard of a family.

At a glance, you can get the impression that the people here do not have a high standard of living. To put it bluntly, it's very poor. The low house couldn't be simpler, without any decent furniture, just a small number of very simple household items such as pots and pans. People also seem very listless. The driver said that in order to protect the environment, people here do not cut down trees and farm land.

"What do you live on if you don't farm?" Xue Luo was a little puzzled. The driver of the Jodhbul Bishnoy Cultural Village brought Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to sit on the ground in front of the white-clothed uncle with a big bulge on one side, and then asked him to show Xueluo and Liu Jingshu what they were doing. Most of the driver's explanations were incomprehensible.

But seeing that the man was facing a small wooden shelf in the shape of a cross, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu didn't see what the small items in their hands were put into two black cloth bags and filtered with water, and then put them in the small clay pot below to grind them, and then took them to the small square platform on the high place to roast them with candle flames, and finally, put them in front of their noses and smelled them.

In the meantime, his mouth seemed to be chanting incantations, and his demeanor was a bit like witchcraft. After the performance, the driver interpreter said that after smelling that thing, he would feel very refreshed and comfortable. Hearing these words, Xueluo immediately thought of an item that could be smelled and refreshed: big smoke. ――This person doesn't want Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to buy his big cigarettes, right?

Xueluo muttered to herself. Thinking of this, I immediately lost interest, thanked the uncle, and gave the uncle a little living sponsorship fee per person according to the driver's statement, and then left. Didn't you say that you brought Xueluo and Liu Jingshu here to see the animals? The Jodhpur weaving workshop left the small village, and the driver took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to the next place.

A weaving workshop. It is the place where carpets, tapestries and scarves are woven. There are several very simple but new-looking thatched huts in Jodhpur Weaving Workshop, with solar poles erected next to them, as if to power the houses. A local sat at the door reading the newspaper very leisurely, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu didn't turn around and raise their eyes when they came over.

Apart from him, there was no one else in the entire compound. Between the thatched huts is a small flat field with white religious motifs painted in the middle that the snow falls incomprehensible. This small venue is like a place for people to dance the kind of local folk dance - the scene of snow falling seems to have been seen in the "ethnic villages" of the country - the kind of place dedicated to receiving tourists.

The Jodhpur weaving workshop invited workers to show Xueluo and Liu Jingshu how to weave a handmade rug. The wood weaving machine is old-fashioned, using wooden poles and hemp rope to straighten the warp threads of a single bed's area on the weaving machine, and then weaving the weft one by one by hand. Weaving a carpet like this really trains endurance.

If Sun Wukong was pressed here to weave a carpet, I am afraid that he would have jumped up a long time ago, and he would have returned to Huaguo Mountain to go to the bird - "My old grandson doesn't have that patience." Hand-woven bed drawers from Jodhpur weaving workshops. The Jodhpur weaving workshop has a large carpet weaving workshop, which specializes in weaving carpets, tapestries, scarves and other woven goods.

Jodhpur weaving workshop finished product room. The companion gave them some small silver taels in exchange for one or two pure wool scarves to go back to show off with relatives and friends. After seeing these two places, I thought that the driver was going to take Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to see the main event - wild animals close to people. Unexpectedly, the little jeep carried Xueluo and Liu Jingshu back to the city quickly.

What about wild animals? A feeling of being played. Back at the hotel, the boss asked how the fun was? Xueluo and Liu Jingshu replied: I was disappointed. The boss looked puzzled and said that many European and American tourists liked it very much, and wanted to go crying and shouting. Xueluo believes that the boss is serious, he is an aristocrat, and he can't afford to make this little money, and besides, he found a car outside that specializes in this tour line.

But he probably didn't know that the place where the driver took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu was really not fun, and it wasn't even a chicken rib. One buys pottery, one sells cloth, and one has to donate. Although the hotel owner and his wife belong to the aristocratic class of "royal relatives", they are very friendly and very kind, and there is no arrogance or arrogance at all.

Knowing that Xueluo and Liu Jingshu were leaving tomorrow, he told the cook to prepare some good dishes for Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to taste in the evening, and helped Xueluo and Liu Jingshu contact the chartered bus to Udaipur tomorrow, and happily accepted the invitation to take a photo with Xueluo and Liu Jingshu. Thank you for your care and comfort in the past three days, and welcome to the opportunity to come to Dragon Country.

Dinner was served in the hotel restaurant, the dishes were made by the chef of the hotel, authentic local Indian food. The double-layered scones are called chabati, which are moderately soft and hard, with a faint wheat aroma in them, rice is rarely eaten here, and some beans and curry are put in it, and two pots of stewed vegetables and one pot of curry vegetable soup.

It's not luxurious, it's not pompous, it's very local. At this point, after three days in Jodhpur, tomorrow we will charter a bus to the next stop - the white city of Udaipur, on the way to visit the Thousand Pillars Temple and Gombal Gargar Fort. In the early morning, the bright morning glow in Jodhpur sent Snow Fall and Liu Jingshu to Udaipur.

The figure of Mount Meru in the palace of Umaid Pawang is soaked in golden glow. A Toyota minibus chartered in Jodhpur from Jodhpur to Udaipur is less than 300 kilometers, including 5,500 yuan for the attractions, driver and all fares on the way. Because it is entrusted to the hotel to help make the reservation, it will be slightly more expensive than going directly to the travel agency to rent.

It is estimated that the price of this car should be 4000~4500. On the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur, it is about 280 kilometers from Jodhpur via Gombal Gargar Fort to Udaipur. The road on the way is roughly like this, two-way single-lane, asphalt road, because this section of the road is far from the big cities, so there are not many vehicles on the road.

Jodhpur on the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur. Large areas of golden rape flowers are flourishing in the fields, which indirectly reflects the seasonal weather conditions in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan in early December. With temperatures around 2030 degrees and little rain, it's a great season for travel. Jodhpur on the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur.

brand truck, a local brand in India. The front face of this car is painted white, and the appearance reminds Xueluo of the little white face sitting in front of the dragon country's double reed. On the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur, I passed through a small village and saw some women walking on the road with things on their heads, most of them without holding their hands, as if they were performing acrobatics.

The sari they wore was particularly brightly colored, and they couldn't help but think of the rumors that women in Indian society were frequently affected by ** incidents, and thought to themselves, if their clothing colors were more low-key, such as women in some Muslim countries wearing plain clothes to cover their heads and bodies, leaving only a pair of eye holes to see things, would such cases be lower?

If the women of the Dragon Kingdom wore clothes of such exaggerated colors, would the crime rate be higher? In fact, the original meaning of Xueluo was that even if women wore such colorful clothes, they did not feel that they were unsafe. The security problem of women in Indian society is not as serious as Xueluo and Liu Jingshu have heard.

On the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur, the journey of 280 kilometers met two toll booths, one toll station charged 35 yuan or 35 yuan, and the other charged 50. I had planned to visit the Kasbah Hotel in the village of Nalai between Jodhpur and Thousand Pillars. But the driver said he couldn't find the location of this hotel.

He took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to visit a Jain temple near the town of Pali. Nalai village is located near the town of Daisuri on the way from Jodhpur to Udaipur. It is a natural village located on the edge of a small hill. The only sight in the village is a hotel called Revalarnale.

Formerly the residence of the Tutu vassal of Jodhpur, the hotel building was built in the early 17th century and is about 400 years old. This is also the biggest selling point of the hotel, and the accommodation costs a lot of money. Due to its remote location, few tourists or backpackers come here, and most of the people who come here to stay here are wealthy people who come to enjoy the royal leisure life.

The hotel is actually inside an ancient castle, there are many ancient murals and stone carvings, and even if you don't stay, the waiters at the hotel are willing to take tourists around, and even visit room 9, which has paintings left hundreds of years ago. You can also stop by to go around this very pristine village.

Perhaps because there are so few tourists, the villagers are very enthusiastic when they see foreigners and invite them into their homes, which gives tourists the opportunity to really enter the homes of the lower families of Indians. Most of the houses in the village are relatively simple, and there are occasionally rooms with a slightly tangible appearance, but the inside is almost the same, the light is dim, most of them have no beds, and they sleep directly on thin mats on the ground.

Except for a pile of large and small jars and barrels, there is a dilapidated wardrobe. The locals all speak Hindi and barely speak English, making communication difficult. -- Excerpt from the Travelogue of the Forerunner Pali Jain Temples The situation of Jainism has already been introduced in the Jaiselmeir section of this travelogue, so I will not repeat it here, but simply say it.

It is an ancient religion in India that originated from Hinduism but is different from Hinduism, which arose around the 6th century BC. There are currently about 4 million believers in India, which is about 04% of the total population. It's a small religion. Jodhpur Bali Jain Temple Jain Temple This is a temple of a bit of scale, which was not in Xueluo and Liu Jingshu's plan, it was brought by the driver.

Located in a village near the town of Bally. The temple belongs to the devotees and is not visited by many tourists. Tours are allowed, but photography is not allowed. Because Xueluo and Liu Jingshu were about to go to a very large Jain Temple Qianzhu Temple to visit, and they were not allowed to take pictures here, Xueluo didn't go in, and their companions went in to take a look, saying that it was quite big and there were a lot of people.