mattys traveblog part 2: Jodhpur

For my trip to Jodhpur this time i had tried to order a nice airconditioned bus. In this country the best busses usually are "Volvo-Buses". They look compared to other busses relatively modern and the great advantage was, this buses seem to be resilient enough, so you don't feel every single pothole on the road.

But now lets get to this city.
From all the cities , which i have seen so far in India i think i like this one the least.
Why?
Well, quite easy to explain:
Because it is dirty, it stinks everywhere, and there are flies all around. And then there is this thing which i don't like about india in general:
People just throw all their trash on the street. People have this very weird attitude, that they don't care about where all the trash is going and whether things might be recycled. They just throw it wherever they want. So what you see on the next picture, is not typical for Jodhpur, it is typical for any city in india.
Well i don't like this attitude. My friends say: Well there are so many millions of people who struggle with the simplest things in life, like having access to a normal toilet, that these things don't really matter to them.
Fine, maybe - but i think the way people treat their environment , is also how environment will return things to them. Like the fact that you cannot drink tabwater anywhere in this country, because it is all completely polluted.
I remember being on this volvo bus, and i see this empty water bottle rolling to the front of the bus. I picked it up, and didn't know where to put it. While trying a place where to put it during the busride, the busdriver offered me, just to give it to him. So i gave him my bottle. And what is he doing? He opens the window and throws it out of the window.
Anyways, if you don't want 95% of your roads to look like this - don't throw your trash on the streets.

another garbage dump in the middle of the street

I guess i got a bit off topic. So i didn't like this city, because it smelled bad and there were flies everywhere, probably because of all the trash on the street.
It is said that all the buildings in this city were painted in blue color, because the blue color is meant to keep insects away from this city.
Obviously this did work quite as well as trying to keep away moths away in the darkness, by keeping the lights on. So not at all...

Anyways here some fotos from this city. If you walk through the city, it doesn't appear all in blue. Not all the buildings are colored in blue. Only some of them. So Only if you see the city from the top of the castle, which i went to that day, you can see that it is actually blue.