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Bishnoi Villages

Our agency offers a unique opportunity to watch from close quarters colourful traditions, tattos and totems as vibrrant components of a living culture. Housewives and craftsmen at work with conventional skill and implements that have survived generation after generation for centuries.

Approach this heritage with us as guest and feel it first hand. The revealing experience shall disillusion you. You will be most willing to discard your pre-conceived notions: Sons of soil in their natural habitat are the most fascinating lot.

"We also bring people together to do voluntary work to benifit the local community."

Jambho Ji prescribed 29 golden commandments or rule, an eclectic collection of wisdom distilled from the best of religious and social practices across the world, for one to be called as Bishnoi.

So powerful, logical and simple were his teachings that people from all races and creeds, including Moslems, embraced it to form the basis of Bishnoi religion. This fusion, of different opinions emanating from people of different religions, was nothing less than a miracle.

29 commandments, had not only provided a basis for naming of the religion, Bishnoi, but also acted as a reference guide for millions to live in complete harmony with their environment and establish a symbiotic relationship with nature.

A jeep drive through the countryside-a conducted tour of villaged inhabited by a unique comminity-Vishnois! Meet them in their homes and talk to them. The vegetarian community the best friend and protector of the flora and fauna conceding spritiual allegiance to twenty and nine tenets of the 15th century legendary Guru Jambheshwar(Jambhoji). Spot the herds of black buck around the Vishnois settlements freely and fearlessly running about. Gorgeously clad womenfolk and headgeared charming men are compellingly and invitingly intersting for a dialogue.

Opium ceremony is a unique cutomary feature besides the cottage craftsmanship of the potters and weavers.

"Sar Santey Rookh Rahe To Bhi Sasto Jaan"
(If a tree is saved even at the cost of one's head, it's worth it)

Widely Circulated Travel Guide Books (French, Flemish, Footprint & Roughguide etc.


	Poly Travels (Plan B1, 4) : n10 D Bus Stand , Paota (� c�t� du terminal des bus gouvernement taux). 254-52-10 ou 257-16-20 (le soir). mobile number : 98291-47470 polytravels@sify.com. Une bonne agence. Les patrons, Surendra, Raj Gehlot ( le fr�re) et Sanjay ( le fils, qui parle un peu le francais), prodiguent un sympathique accueil et proposent des excursions int�ressantes aux alentours, notamment � la r�serve d'oiseaux et dans les villages vishno�s. Reservation de bus , location de v�hicules, safari-photo, etc. Pour I'excursion � la demi-journ�e, compter environ 300 Rps/pers quand on est 4 et 400 Rps/pers quand on est 2. Une agence qui ne nous a jamais d��us, ni nous ni nos lecteurs, depuis de nombreuses ann�es, tout simplement parce que Surendra et son fils connaissent bien les villageois. lls y organisent m�me des s�jours de travail b�n�vole ( contactez-les pour en saviour plus) . La famille tient �galement une excellente Guest-House � Mandore, tout pres de Jodhpur.


	PageNo. (550 HET WESTEN / RAJASTHAN. ) (JODHPUR / SLAPEN 551) Reisagentschappen Poly Travel ( plattegrond B1, 6): Bus Stand 10 D, Paota ( naast het busstation voor de staatsbussen). Phone Number 2545210, en 2571620 ('s avonds). www.mandore.com, polytravels@sify.com, Prima reisagentschap. De eigenaars (Surendra,zijn broer Raj Gehlot en zijn zoon Sanjay) zijn bijzonder sympathik, ontvangen je met een glimlach en stellen interessante excursies voor op hun programma, bijvoorbeeld naar het vogelreservaat en naar de Vishnoisdorpjes. Sanjay spreekt zelfs een mandje Frans. Je kunt er terecht om bussen to boeken, voertuigen te huren of aan uitstapjes deel te nemen (fotosafari's...). Dit is een agentschap dat ons tot op datum van vandaag nog nooit ontgoocheld heeft, noch onze lezers heeft ontstemd. We nemen dit adres al heel lang op in onze Trotter. Surendra en zijn zoon kennen de omgeving op hun duimpje en zijn heel goed bevriend met de dorpsinwoners. Ze organiseren er zelfs verblijven voor wie vrijwilligerswerk wilt verwezenlijken ( in het bijzonder in het plaateslijke ziekenhuis; raadpleeg hen als je daar meer over te weten wilt komen!). Het gezin runt bovendien een uitstekend guesthouse in Mandore ( in de omgeving van Jodhpur).

English translation by:Laurent Burger, 10 avenue da corbera, 75012, Paris-France.


Poly Travels 10 D Bus Stand, Paota (next to the bus station) Phone: +91-291-254210, +91-291-2546959 or +91-291-2571620(evening). polytravels@sify.com. A good travel agency. The bosse, Surendra, Raj Gehlot(the brother) and Sanjay(the son) give a nice welcome and propose intersting tour nearby, espacially to the bird reserve and to the Vishnois Villages. Bus reseravation, car rental, photo-safaris etc. For a half-day tour, expect 300 rupees if you are 4 and 350 roupise if your are 2. A travel agency which has never disappointed us nor our readers for many years, simply because Surendra knows the villages inhabitants well as he visits them. The gehlots own an excellent guesthouse as well in mandore, nearby Jodhpur.

Come and meet India's people and let them show you their homeland.

We believe the time has come to step off the well-worn tourist trails and head into the heart of India, allowing you the chance to witness firsthand the life that the vast majority of Indians live.

A true insight into the region for making connections with people from different cultures, in an authentic and mutually enjoyable way. During the tour, you will travel through interesting places, witnessing and take part in the life of the region, as well as visiting most of the better known locations. It is a wonderful opportunity to introduce you to India's extreme cultural diversity to gain greater insight into this chaotic, colorful, soulful, developing part of the world.

An Article About Villages Vishnois, Published in National News Magazine from France GLOBE TROTTERS

A LA RENCONTRE DES VILLAGEOIS VISHNOIS


	Surendra est directeur de dispensaire. II habite Jodhpur, la cité blonde et bleue aux portes du désert du Thar. Ses protégés : des villageois de la communauté vishnoïe, protecteurs de la nature depuis la naissance de leur religion, voilà trois siècles. Des agriculteurs, qui vivent au rythme des récoltes de milet et de lentilles, qui ingnorent la foile de la ville toute
proche et accueillent le drôle d'étranger avec de grands rires et du thé. Surendra profite de ses tournées dans les villages pour emmener des voyageurs à la rencontre de la communauté vishnoïe.Entre cérémonies de l'opium, chapatis et tissage de tapis, récit d'une plongée dans i'ordinaire et l'ordinaire et l'exceptionnel d'un village indien.

English Translation


Surendra is the director of an aid agency (dispensary). He lives in jodhpur, the blue and white city at the gate of the thar desert� . The people he helps : villagers of the vishnoi community, guardian of their environment since the birth of their religion 500 years ago. A peasant people who live according to the rhythms of their harvest of millet and lentils, who ignore the madness of the city close by, and who welcomes strange foreigners with big smile and a cup of tea. Surendra takes tours round these villages, enabling travellers to meet the vishnoi community. Between opium ceremonies, chapatis and carpet - weaving. Here is the story of an immersion into the ordinary and the extra ordinary of an indian village��