{"id":1033,"date":"2019-02-14T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T23:35:50","slug":"day-off-in-udaipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Follow religion, don\u2019t fall in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A luxury: second day at Udaipur. We went for a city tour, including the water palace on the man made lake, relaxed, then set out for an afternoon short ride around Udaipur. Almost as soon as we set out, we were distracted by a crowd shouting. As always, Umesh encouraged us to explore what the hubbub is all about, and we stumbled onto a game of &#8220;Indian national sport&#8221;, Kabadi. Rules seem a bit convoluted, but ideal to be played in the countryside, as it requires no equipment. The announcer urged the players to put on their best performance, as &#8220;the foreigners&#8221; graced them with our presence.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?resize=525%2C679\" width=\"525\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?w=1484&amp;ssl=1 1484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1913.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We visited a local cultural open air museum, where various tribes converge to showcase their varied cultures. Performers from Gujrat:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1917.jpg?resize=525%2C1002\" width=\"525\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1917.jpg?w=1006&amp;ssl=1 1006w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1917.jpg?resize=157%2C300&amp;ssl=1 157w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1917.jpg?resize=768%2C1466&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1917.jpg?resize=537%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kundan joined us for the ride, first bike ride in 30 years!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1036\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?resize=525%2C747\" width=\"525\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?w=1350&amp;ssl=1 1350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?resize=768%2C1092&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?resize=720%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/img_1928.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A luxury: second day at Udaipur. We went for a city tour, including the water palace on the man made lake, relaxed, then set out for an afternoon short ride around Udaipur. Almost as soon as we set out, we were distracted by a crowd shouting. As always, Umesh encouraged us to explore what the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/?p=1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Follow religion, don\u2019t fall in it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiemcclelland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}