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Pushkar Slideshow
Pushkar
Travel Blogs from Pushkar, India
Squatters, Squatting and Squat
... obviously it is the anti-norm things that stick out in my mind. I hate to think that I might be insulting someone from India. Regardless, I have seen people peeing in streams, in the road, at the bus stop and pretty much wherever and whenever there ...
Camel country
... pretty town called Pushkar on St Valentine's day. Nestled in the hot dry Rajesthani Mountians, the narrow streets that surround holy pushkar lake were the perfect antidote for the previous couple of days that we spent in two of india's most hectic ...
Pushkar
Sorry about all the pictures of monkeys, but this is my first encounter with lower primates (other than Raiders ...
How many camels for my wife?
... in them as well as visiting the only Brahma temple in the whole of india. We snuck in a little bit of shopping and Helen bought a vintage genuine Bollywood dress. We really enjoyed Pushkar and would recommend it even out of camel fair season. ...
PrisonBreak
... I was almost on a plane back to the US. Let me begin that, at the moment, and for the last 24 hours, I love India. I am happy in Pushkar and love the people, well besides the kids who are trying to rip you off by slipping bracelets onto your arm or the ...
Blessed, chilled out, but no water in the lake!
Yes there is still no bloody water in the lake at Pushkar! I read this in the newspaper when I first arrived in India all those months ago. They are busy cleaning it and also trying to make it deeper. I was hoping that almost 3 months later the water ...
Holy Hoummous
... there is only one known solution, smile and nod and try to ask a question if there was ever a pause. So arrival in Pushkar was something of a relief. 15,000 people live here but the town exists as a Hindu pilgramage site where people travel from ...
Nästan ute i öknen
... jag legat sjuk och inte gjort sa mycket mer an sovit. Men det ar inte hela varlden och idag ar jag pa benen igen! Pushkar ar valdigt trevligt i ovrigt, riktigt skon kansla har precis som i nagon annan heligare by som Varanasi. Man kanner det nar man ...
Galloping on Camels
... scrub desert mostly except for some sand dunes. There were lots of camels (they are actually dromedaries, like in Morocco. The only camels in India are in the Himalayan area in the north.) and people. But I got to steer my own camel and I got to run! ...
Rajastan
After a really unpleasant night on a rickety old filthy sleeper bus we arrived in Ajmer and caught a local bus to Pushkar (much the better option than taking an overpriced autorickshaw, we quickly discovered). We checked into Seventh Heaven (as ...
The Camel Fair
Venturing in to Rajhastan, we headed straight to Pushkar, on the train, to experience the hulabaloo of the Camel Fair. Hundreds and thousands of livestock traders meet outside Pushkar to trade camels, cattle and horses. There is an electric atmosphere ...
Ranakpur
... day (29/01), we went to the Jain temple that the guide in the bird sanctuary strongly recommended.It is the largest in India. We were not disappointed. I was more impressed that Taj Mahal. We got given out by a guard for taking pictures of the ...
In seventh heaven
... coming from a generator being pushed along by 3 exhausted looking young men and wires trailing everywhere - only in India! Otherwise, Pushkar is a small city with much to commend it including a lively market place and plenty of reasonably priced gifts to ...
Camels, camels, and more camels!!!
... the food, but everything here is vegetarian because it is a holy city. I am eating lots of rice! But during the day at Pushkar, it gets very, very hot. We went into the festival and walked around through the cow, horse, and camel areas where all the ...
Tourist Central...Pushkar
... exotic oasis in central Rajasthan were dashed as soon as I arrived. While it is colorful (where in Rajasthan isn't?), Pushkar is less about authentic spiritual discovery than getting stoned with blitzed out Americans (in the continental sense), Europeans, ...
Pushkar
Brahma dropped a lotus flower on the earth, so say the epics, and Pushkar floated to the surface. This is a Hindu pilgrimage town, where rows of sacred ghats front a beautiful lake. They have a camel fair once a year that we missed unfortunately, ...
Good morning sunshine
Jag vaknade ovanligt tidigt, 10:30, var lite trött och smågrinig. Utslagen i sängen och försöker få ork till att göra min snabba morgonyoga, men ligger och drar mig lite till... lite till... Får ett sms av mor min, och det var inte ett ...
Happy Birthday Laurel!
Happy Birthday to Laurel! We have had a very lovely, relaxing day in Pushkar...first to explain a bit about this leg of the trip. We decided to hire a driver and book all of our hotels through a travel agent--supposedly state-run, but I think not--and I ...
Das erste und letzte Mal
... wir wieder in Jaipur an, wo wir warteten bis unser Zug nach Delhi abfuhr... Alles in allem, war es zwar interesant auch einmal Pushkar und die Umgebung zu sehen, jedoch war diese Art von Reisen, nämlich mit einem Touristen-Bus von einem Ort zum anderen ...
am in Pushkar - not near any exploding trains!
... Brahman, Shiva, and Vishnu. The latter two have temples all over India, but the only Brahman temple in all of India is in the tiny town of Pushkar. This is the story: Brahman was tired of waiting for his wife on one particular day, ...
Camel Craziness!!!
None of my friends will believe what I saw today! We drove from Jaipur to Pushkar for the largest camel festival in India. They also sell cows, horses, goats, and lots of other things. Hindu people also come here right now because it is a very holy ...
les aventures continuent
... qui se dit soucria. Ils nous disent bonjour dans la rue, les enfants nous font couou d la main. c est bien agreable. Il y a a Pushkar un nombre incroyable de vaches sacrees. elles ont partout. c est rigolo. Et j ai meme resolu la grande enigme, elles ...
De jongens van India
... , zoals je meteen merkt als ze met ons op de foto willen, alleen zijn er dus niet zoveel vrouwen op straat. Pushkar is een heerlijk rustig dorpje. Net frankrijk: smalle heuvelachtige straatjes waarin je kunt verdwalen met fleurige oude gebouwen en een ...
Which way to the camel fair?
... ; I'll see what I can do about that. Today, we went to the ghats and watched people perform their religious rituals. Pushkar is also a very holy place and contains over 500 temples. At the ghats, people bathe themselves in the holy lake water, ...
Baba
Just as I left the internet cafe from my last blog post, the most ridiculous thing happened. Dad and I walked around the lake (which happens to be empty) and sit down to observe the sadhus, or holy men. They dedicate their lives over to ...
roaming in rajasthan
... travelled to Pushkar for a bit of a rest for 3 days. It's said that the hind go brahma dropped a lotus flower on Pushkar and it's a bit of a pilgramage sight but there's loads of coll hippyish stuff here and the locals are a lot more chilled ...
un petit coucou avant de partir pour johdpur
coucou a tous!!! pas beaucoup de temps ;amlheureusement pour vous raconter tout ce que j aimerais vous dire ni pour repondre a vos messages chaleureux que j ai pris du plaisir a lire. je le ferai des que je le pourrai mais je voulais au moins vous dire ...
Rickshaw Driver's
Well, I wrote a nice long rant about rickshaw driver's. My mom sent an e-mail mocking my editing ..so I came back to disvover a half completed entry...so I deleted it and now have a gaping hole to fill in. Rickshaw drivers suck! They ...
Camel fair
... quite a crowd, both locals and tourists and general people watching is definately one of the best attractions. As well as the fair, Pushkar town itself is a nice place to while a few days (although a bit less relaxing than would normally be the case.) ...