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Village Safari |
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Day return outing in Jeep visit various traditional villages a community visit
to Bishnoi and shepherds.
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Bishnoi communities |
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This is the tracks led us to the bishnoi tribe. .Bishnoi tribe lives in close
communion with nature and are considering as the worlds first environmentalist
community. Discover the story of this tribe that sacrificed 363 lives to save
the trees. “Bishnoi” are protectors of wildlife and trees. Bishnoi follows 29
tenets laid down by their Guru Jambho Ji (1451-1536). You can see man in their
traditional attire, woman in the traditional colorful attire with ancestral
silver jewelry.
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Shepherds communities |
| Shepherds community lives on raising and trading
sheep, goats and camels. Shepherds community live in traditional houses made out
of mud and clay called as “dhani”. The roof covered with millets thatches. The
external walls of dhani are of thorny thatches for protection of their cattle’s.
Women in this community can be recognized from a distance for distinguished
style of wearing bangles which cover the majority of their wrist and upper arm,
earlier these bangles
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were made out of camel bone but now these bangles are made out of plastic. Women
wear special style of short skirt which has 80 fold and use to weigh two and
half kilograms.
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Weaver’s communities |
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The Prajapati communities are the traditional durry weaver’s community who lives
around Jodhpur. Prajapati community is making durry from past 600 years. These
durry are used in villages even still today for covering the floor. To welcome a
guest durry are rolled out and guest & host sits on it. These durry are woven on
a loom by two people and it take around a week to few months to make a durry
depending on complicacy of designs and color combination used in it. The
material used is cotton, wool, Jute
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and occasionally silk.
Traditional they have
around 150 designs which are handed over from one generation to anthore and best
thing about durry that you can use them reversible and wash them too. Art of
making durry are taught to children once they reaches the age of 14-15 years.
This community forbidden child labour and any one who teach this art to his
children below age of 14 are socially boycotted from the community. |
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Potters communities |
| They are making the traditional art of pottery.
Villagers even still today buys and used clay pots, pans, spices box, oil lamps
etc, Here you can have an experience of making some clay pottery .They will be
happy to teach you some thing. Potter bring the clay from the nearly pond and
dry them under the sun heat, then clay is powdered and mix with water once the
clay became soft enough their hands make beautiful product out of it, then these
product are baked in kiln for overnight. They move with their
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products from village to village and even in cities to sell their products.
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Wildlife |
| We can also get the glimpses of wildlife such as black buck, chinkaras, and blue
bull, migrated bird like demoiselle cranes, local bird like peacock etc. freely
moving in abundance and protected.
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The guides who are very respected from the countryside inhabitants will
provide you few keys to better understand this beautiful countryside life.
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On your request we can . |
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