We are home in our new guest house - Baijoo Niwas in Jodpur. It is another rennovated old style building. Simply gorgeous.
Our journey with Mr Singh has finished . He is already back on his way to Delhi. He’s been good company. He had limited English but enough for us to understand each other. He had a dry sense of humour and wicked laugh. We may look to get him to drive us to Leh.
He took us to a Sikh temple and shared the appropriate way to worship; He seemed to know every Punjabi on the road - who needs Google maps when you just wind down your window and ask a stranger. He was stoked that we were happy to share a meal at a roadside Punjabi eating establishment. Establishment probably brings a Speights Ale House type setting to your eyes. That - it was not. A mud lean-to; the chef cooked Dahl and Okra over an open flame; there was a wee mouse who popped up from one of the kilns... however the food was delicious.
We shared our 200km journey with pilgrims today. They effectively took out one lane of the highway there were so many of them. And considering cows often take the other lane it was a stop start journey. 1000s of people are walking on pilgrim to a special temple outside of Jaisalmer. Some were starting in Udaipur as we left in our AC car today. It’ll be over 400km by the time they get to the temple. Unlike the 100km non-stop relays of NZ, these men, women, boys, girls and babies are in jandals or bare feet, women often carrying a small parcels on their heads. There were large tents providing free food and drink, and I guess a sleeping mat marae style along the way. The pilgrims are heading to Ramdevra Temple - this is a sacred temple that anyone of any religion can worship at. It is the resting place of a prophet who cared for the poor. Many socially conscious people go to the temple today.
Jain temple - the oldest around. Situated in a mountainous and jungle region
Check our the weeds!
Monsoon rains yesterday - again, our timing is exquisit
Our journey with Mr Singh has finished . He is already back on his way to Delhi. He’s been good company. He had limited English but enough for us to understand each other. He had a dry sense of humour and wicked laugh. We may look to get him to drive us to Leh.
He took us to a Sikh temple and shared the appropriate way to worship; He seemed to know every Punjabi on the road - who needs Google maps when you just wind down your window and ask a stranger. He was stoked that we were happy to share a meal at a roadside Punjabi eating establishment. Establishment probably brings a Speights Ale House type setting to your eyes. That - it was not. A mud lean-to; the chef cooked Dahl and Okra over an open flame; there was a wee mouse who popped up from one of the kilns... however the food was delicious.
We shared our 200km journey with pilgrims today. They effectively took out one lane of the highway there were so many of them. And considering cows often take the other lane it was a stop start journey. 1000s of people are walking on pilgrim to a special temple outside of Jaisalmer. Some were starting in Udaipur as we left in our AC car today. It’ll be over 400km by the time they get to the temple. Unlike the 100km non-stop relays of NZ, these men, women, boys, girls and babies are in jandals or bare feet, women often carrying a small parcels on their heads. There were large tents providing free food and drink, and I guess a sleeping mat marae style along the way. The pilgrims are heading to Ramdevra Temple - this is a sacred temple that anyone of any religion can worship at. It is the resting place of a prophet who cared for the poor. Many socially conscious people go to the temple today.
Town on the way - splashes of colour everywhere.
Jain temple - the oldest around. Situated in a mountainous and jungle region
Check our the weeds!
Monsoon rains yesterday - again, our timing is exquisit
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