Going Green in Udaipur
September 8th, 2009 | 
Author: I booked a room at a hotel in Udaipur where I had the best vacation. On one of my day excursion, I headed to the arid Aravalli Hills, surrounded by aromatic eucalyptus trees just to take a bath in a single slab of emerald Udaipur marble. This was at a well known resort. The only way I got to do this, is last night, when I was out on the town having a great dinner, the man sitting next to me was telling his companion about the room he was staying in at this resort just in the hill of Udaipur. He told his friend about this marvellous tub. But, the reason he picked this resort is because is was ‘green’. He said the resort sweeps with brooms made from the local grass and fallen palms. They also use recycled tea, rice and flour sacks as trash receptacles. What ever food scraps are left over from the dinner guest, gets donated as scraps to the local pig farmers. The resort is on five acres of pesticide-free grounds, which supply most of the food, including free range chickens for all of the guests. He went on about how the spa is Ayuvedic and focuses on holistic healing and works with intentional healing to balance one within . He just got a Reiki treatment just this morning as has never felt better in his whole life. His dinner companion asked him if they do massages, and he said yes, for instance, they offer an Ayurvedic massage that releases deep seated toxins for elimination through the body’s natural processes. He said he had one of those the previous morning.
I couldn’t help but interrupt their conversation and ask him where this delicious resort is, he smiled and told me he’d be glad to invite me up for the day so I can experience it first hand. He said, not to worry, he’s married and his wife is staying with him, but that she couldn’t join he and his dinner companion tonight because she’s having her body painted with henna, and he plans to do the very same thing tomorrow, because they couldn’t fit he and his wife in at the same time. I gladly took him up on his offer.
So, has I soaked in his emerald Udaipur marble tub, I couldn’t help but wonder and be amazed at how India is doing it’s best to become a sustainable viable country and how this resort is an excellent start.
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