Ajmer, India Travel Blogs

All that glitters is gold...and Jain
Dec 12, 2007 (28 photos)

... still barely intact, we held on to the optimistic thought that we would simply know when we had arrived in downtown Ajmer. Usually this involves looking for more buildings and congestion than usual, but more often than not we fell victim to peer pressure ...

Ajmer shariff
Aug 22, 2008 (3 photos)

... Shakar, Pak Pattan Sharif, Pakistan. Situated between Jama Masjid and Sandali Masjid in the premises of Hazrat khwaja Muinuddin's Dargah at Ajmer. Along the left-hand wall, in the background of the Sandali Masjid there is a small gate which leads down to ...

My Homer Simpson moment...
Apr 17, 2008 (5 photos)

... time watching Babas smoke dope than I care for I'm hot and thirsty.  We eventually travel through Snake mountain (!) to get to Ajmer, a Muslim pilgrimage city and home to the Dargah - the tombof Sufi saint, Khwaja Muin-ud-din Christi, who came to ...

Ajmer
Nov 4, 2006 (1 photos)

A stop at Ajmer, the second most holy Islamic city gave us a chance to see the mosque. Other than that Ajmer was just a stop over to catch the train to Jodhpur.

An Ajmer Afternoon
Nov 15, 2006 (3 photos)

Coming from Jaipur, I arrived in the early afternoon. Dropped my bag at the bus station and went for a stroll in town. I somehow liked the town, although I can't particularly point out why. There was a red temple that particularly impressed (not the one ...

Ghost Train
Dec 13, 2007 (1 photos)

... pm train to Ajmer, where we were going to make that bus connection and see Pushkar.  PLUS...  I'd booked overnight tickets from Ajmer back up to Delhi for the following night- I have a plane that leaves out of Delhi today (that's actually where I ...

East Rajasthan
Apr 6, 2006 (22 photos)

English - After reaching stardom in Mumbai as extra's in the Bollywood movie we took an 18hr sleeper train North to Jaipur in Rajasthan. Jaipur is referred to as the Pink city which I am sure it was once. However, urban sprawl and pollution and ...

Ajmer
Jan 3, 2008 (10 photos)

 

Ajmer
Feb 5, 2007 (3 photos)

On the drive from Jaipur to Udaipur I stopped in the town of Ajmer. It is mostly a Muslim town. I visited Dargah, which is the tomb of a Sufi saint. I was blessed with the edge of a tomb blanket. There was also a cemetery at the sight and there ...

More from Rajasthan
Feb 2, 2006 (4 photos)

More photos from Rajasthan

I LOST MY SHADES!!!
Feb 2, 2006 (6 photos)

... today. After the museum I met up with Ajay, he came to the station to see me off. The bus took 3 hours to get to Ajmer, the time passed pretty quickly really. Once at Ajmer I got an Autorickshaw to take me to the nearest Cheap hotel, checked in, left my ...

Anger in Ajmer
Dec 11, 2008

... "treat" after having been cultured  - the lonely-planet-recommended "delicious toffee" -  tasted like lard. The other Ajmer attraction (there are no more rest assured) is the Nasiyan Jain Temple also known as the Red Temple built in 1865. The ...

Pushkar
Mar 31, 2007 (5 photos)

Pushkar is a very holy city. With over 300 temples built around a small lake surrounded by  mountains and then a desert. Pushkar meaning flower-hand is where one of the great gods of the Hindu religion dropped one of three holy flowers to create ...

Life of a Maharajah
Feb 21, 2007

Too cool!  We stayed in the palace/fort of the Maharajah of Kishangarh today.  In 1992 he converted this place into a hotel.  We walked around the town that has a population of only 11,000 people.  It was very interesting but the kids ...

Holy place!
Oct 1, 2009

... which had definitly the cleanest station yet!!! we ventured to Ajmer and got a taxi to Pushkar one of the holiest places in western India!! Pushkar name comes from the Brahma believe whihc is one of the three main gods to do with Hinuism, Brahma was on a ...

No Power
Nov 22, 2007

... from Udaipur. the car was practically empty. we chatted with an Indian couple who now live in Wisconsin. Interesting... Got in to Ajmer around 10pm and didn't have any advanced booking for a hotel. there were no more buses to Pushkar and we didn't want ...

Delhi to Ajmer - Pushkar Camel Fair
Nov 13, 2005

The first thing I noticed about India was the slightly sweet, hot smell. It's hard to describe really. The second is the traffic. You really do take your life into your own hands if you drive here I reckon, and all of those 'drivers from hell' programmes ...

Pushkar- Lord Brahma's town
Dec 30, 2008 (3 photos)

It will not be incorrect to say that Pushkar which is just 23 km away from Ajmer is the abode of Lord Brahma( The creator of universe). As per the folklore, once the lord was to attend a religious 'havan' where his wife was to accompany him. Since she was ...

Jaisalmer, Jodhpur & Ajmer
May 22, 2009

... various carvings, Mughal paintings & Jodhpur past M’as.  Women workers on this building site (a common sight in India) were carrying small open ‘woks’ full of rubbish and returning with ready mix concrete, all on their heads.& ...

four years have passed and i stil hate this city .
Jul 19, 2009 (1 photos)

Ajmer
Nov 28, 1986

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Ajmer And Pushkar
Dec 22, 2008 (6 photos)

... mostly Pushkar....

Enchanting Ajmer
Dec 30, 2008

... magazines kept us occupied for most of the journey At Jaipur most of the passengers disembarked. In another two hours we reached Ajmer. It was a pleasent 15 deg C and we headed to the restaurant in the station which served a nice vegetarian food costing ...

Ajmer
Oct 3, 2007

... Chisti, which is equally revered by the Hindus and Muslims.It is a centre of culture and education, the British chose Ajmer for its prestigious Mayo College a school exclusively for Indian nobility. Ajmer is also the base for visiting Pushkar (14 km.), ...

Ajmer
Jun 20, 2008

Ajmer, Rajastan

It seemed a good idea not to stay in Pushkar
Oct 29, 2009

So up for more driving - some 300km+ out past Jaipur to Ajmer for the Pushkar Fair. Of course in India travel is a lottery & in the end it took all day. Just when we thought we had escaped the worst of Delhi we hit accidents, jams, bottlenecks & ...

Turning back
Apr 18, 2007 (7 photos)

... to the town of Dhar with the only real point of note here being the rain..........yes rain that fell totally out of character for India in April. We took a soaking being totally unprepared for it !! From Dhar we made our way to the town of Mandu, a small ...

Ajmer
Nov 29, 1982

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