Pushkar is in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan and is a very holy place centred around a lake. It might not suit all travellers tastes when it is absolutely mobbed during the annual Camel Fair, but it has a special magic particularly down at the holy lake at sundown.
Dirty feet (on a light note)
"where are your shoes?" he said I Barefoot, smiled and shrugged. "your taking energy from Pushkar" he said I apologised ...
Know of any unusual festivals in any country?
Bhutan has a lot of festivals during the year, especially in spring and autumn. Mongolia has it's own 'olympic games' every year in July. And then there is the Pushkar festival in India. In Niger there is the Woodabe festival in september and the Touareg festival in december. Just a couple that come into my mind ...
Pushkar
palaces to streets lined with food waste, rubble and cow pat! We arrived in Pushkar after a 6-hour drive with Vinod (including a stop at yet another temple and a beautiful park). The centre of Pushkar ...
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Pushkar
We arrived in Pushkar by bus as there are no trains, it's in the opposite direction to Delhi and although we've done a little backtracking it's nice to be away from Jaipur. Pushkar is a very small, very religious town based around a lake that's supposed to have appeared when Brahma dropped a lotus flower ...
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Pushkar
After all this sightseeing and dawn starts, we decided to spend a few days chilling in Pushkar ...
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