Pushkar, India Travel Blogs

Tourist Central...Pushkar
Mar 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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
Nov 25, 2007 (17 photos)

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, but ...

Happy Birthday Laurel!
Jun 29, 2005

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 ...

Bum come businesswoman...........
Dec 3, 2009

...   can that sustain me>? My parents are being Godsends and sponsoring this dream, allowing their daughter to jerk around in India for a year! They're lending me the rent money and all their support, even their praise. And I am so worried about the ...

Pushkar, Rajasthan
Aug 3, 2009 (12 photos)

Pushkar – August 3rd It took us all day to drive to Pushkar the holy city, located towards the south of the State of Rajasthan. Legend has it that it came into existence when Lord Brahma, the Creator, dropped a lotus flower & where the petals ...

Shout Out #23
Jul 30, 2007 (10 photos)

... ." "Yeah alright. I'm Ash, what's your name?" "Saddam!...or, uh..." (Osama maybe?) "Alright, I'm going to check in." Pushkar is a very touristy spot. Meaning 'born due to flower', it's a Hindu pilgrimage town famous for having one of the only ...

Pushkar
Mar 8, 2007 (3 photos)

A strange choice of location followed, with a trip to the ultra (note not uber) hippy, vegan and dry town of Pushkar, set around a holy lake in the middle of the desert. We resisted the urge to replace our wardrobe with fishermans trousers and headscarfs, ...

Pushkar - A hippy April fools day
Apr 1, 2009 (4 photos)

... the white buildings that have sprung up around the lake add to it's serenity. Unfortunately though, Pushkar has all the same trappings that befall most of India's tourist hot spots and if anything they are more evident here, due to the number of visitors ...

am in Pushkar - not near any exploding trains!
Feb 20, 2007 (3 photos)

... , 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, and ...

les aventures continuent
Jul 17, 2007

... 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 ...

Camel Craziness!!!
Nov 8, 2008 (16 photos)

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 ...

un petit coucou avant de partir pour johdpur
Jul 22, 2007

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
Jan 24, 2009

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
Nov 6, 2006 (10 photos)

After our limited success tiger spotting we decided to head to Pushkar where the annual Camel Fair was taking place and where we figured we would have a pretty good chance of spotting a few furry friends. The fair is a massive party, where thousands of ...

Pushkar, otro mundo en la India!
Feb 20, 2007 (6 photos)

... todo con fotitos de cada sitio! // (english version) Today I arrived to a small city in the middle of Rajastan, named Pushkar. It's surrounded by mountains, and it has access to a desert area in Rajastan (not the kind of sandy desert, but rather ...

Pushkar - Holy City
Jun 16, 2006

... a couple of rules you "should" abide by - namely; 1. No alcohol 2. No meat no chicken fish anything! 3. Strictly NO FUN Pushkar would be a lovely place if they didnt place all these restrictions on a good time so what is there to do - bribe all my ...

Bus journey
Jan 9, 2008

... because I have a dog bite on my bum and I've got my period (an awful experience when travelling, especially in India!). We arrived in Pushkar after dark and luckily found a guest house with clean rooms and hot water for a good price, it's the best ...

Blessed chilled out but no water in the lake!
Dec 22, 2009 (6 photos)

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 would ...

Baba
Oct 28, 2009 (5 photos)

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 ...

The Vang Vieng of India
Nov 23, 2009 (13 photos)

... , we (Finola, Gonzalo and I) met a group of people at our guest house who are spending a good few months in India, and a fair while in Pushkar. We chatted pleasantly and they were cool, and later over the two days we joined them for a walk to a temple and ...

Pilgrim City of Pushkar
Apr 28, 2008 (44 photos)

... ;into the lake for good luck of your family and future and then a ribbon is tied around you wrist.  They call it the Pushkar Passport.  It more reminds me of bearing a cross to vampires as I can now show this anytime they try to approach you to ...

Pushkar II
Feb 20, 2007 (3 photos)

... permite ver las cosas negativas para poder apreciar las positivas. Simboliza tambien vivir el momento, sentirse a si mismo... . Y en cuanto a Pushkar, es un sitio tan sagrado, porque tiene uno de los pocos templos dedicados al culto de Brahma, y para ...

Pushkar
Oct 26, 2005 (3 photos)

In a nutshell: slightly underwhelmed by this little touristy town... ------------------- We arrived in Pushkar quite late in the evening and walked from our hotel into the town to get something to eat. There's much more of a 'traveller's vibe' in ...

Puskkar
May 6, 2006 (10 photos)

... our shoes beside the road! Doug asked if they took Visa! They quickly moved onto the next person. We walked back through Pushkar and saw a wedding parade pass. The guests wanted us to join in and many people were taking photos of US. The wedding was ...

Pushkar - holy city of Brahma.
Feb 4, 2007 (5 photos)

... creating the world. Because this lake is holy and the home of Brahma it is surrounded by temples and shrines. Pushkar has the only temple to Brahma in India and so all Hindu's try and make a pilgrimage here at least once in their lives. We went on a ...

Pushkar
Apr 21, 2006

... to him so I told him that I was not. And no boyfriend either. Sheesh, it's like a Jewish grandmother. Anyway, we arrived in Pushkar and I checked into the hotel which was sort of on par with the last place in terms of quality and comfort but in this case ...

The Holy City
Sep 19, 2009 (1 photos)

Our bus journey from Jaisalmer to Pushkar was eventful, like all other trips!! 2 hours into our 12 journey I thought I could smell paneer (Indian cheese) curry..."can you smell the curry Matt?"....uh no, it was an Italian lady, who was sat in the ...

Appolagies for tardyness
Apr 23, 2005

This is just quick, as I'm starving for some food. Really this isn't an entry, just an apology. I've been forgetting to tell you guys my storys, althought there haven't been many reasontly I still haven't finished telling you about the ones I've had. I ...

World tour commenced in India...
Nov 26, 2007 (20 photos)

... .. green/white/orange.. but India's colours are reversed, so orange/white with an emblem, then green.    Timeline: India A chronology of key events Full name: Republic of India Population: 1.1 billion (UN, 2005) Capital: New Delhi ...

Holy Pushkar
Oct 21, 2005 (12 photos)

... , they really do have the run of the place, just standing around nonchalantly chewing on cardboard or flowers. One annoying thing about Pushkar is all the Brahmin, Sadhus or holy men who constantly hassle you to take a flower to put in the lake as they say ...