Wednesday 16th spent most of the day in the home village of our rickshaw driver from Jaipur. Barala being situated some 30 Km from Jaipur, and only reached from passing through a large industrial zone on the outskirts along potted sandy tracks. Saw my first mongoose (a welcome friend to the villagers to keep down the snake population).
The family lived a very self-sufficent life, growing corn and barley in the semi desert soil which they sold at the local market. Totally self sufficent, with vegetables, and milk products etc..., but what a welcome relief from the noise, and pollution of Jaipur. Again, a walk around the neighbouring farms created great interest as we were the first white people to have visited them, hence we were soon followed by 20 or so curious villages; memories of Kashmir.
A good souvenir, and then back past the smoking chiminies of the brick factories to Jaipur
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