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India, Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

India, Pushkar

A travel blog entry by estamosdeviaje

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... , alrededor del cual hay varios templos, algunos de Shiva, otros de Ganesh, el único de Brahma en India, y algunos más.   5 días pasamos en Pushkar, pero los primeros 4 estuvimos de internación domiciliaria. Y sí, tenía que pasar. Son pocos ...

Pushkar – The Forbidden City, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar – The Forbidden City

A travel blog entry by zinzan3

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... arrival we wandered around town and looked at various accommodations, before settling on the Mahesh Guest House.  According to legend Pushkar came into existence when Lord Brahma, the creator, dropped a lotus flower (pushpa) to the earth from his ...

Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar

A travel blog entry by charlieandedna

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... He purified her, married her. Of course Savitri was upset and she cursed Brahma saying that he would henceforth only be worshipped at Pushkar. The temple itself was a mad house. Everyone trying to get you to buy things, hassle you. We finally got to the ...

Lakeside, Pushkar, India travel blog

Lakeside

A travel blog entry by brettpaton

Pushkar is a small town that is pretty much based on tourism.  It began as a Hindu holy place, where brahma dropped a lotus flower to the earth and a lake formed (as legend has it).  A town was built around this lake, and when tourists ...

Solar Monkey, Pushkar, India travel blog

Solar Monkey

A travel blog entry by getreadyworld

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... to him in Jaipur today, amidst the hassling of bus drivers telling us to go on their bus etc, and have now arrived in Pushkar. Pushkar seems like a nice relaxed place, we have found a hotel which is charging us the equivalent of $6 a night for a room and ...

Jadugar Anand A magician par excellence, Rajasthan, India travel blog

Jadugar Anand A magician par excellence

A travel blog entry by rajendra001

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In the age of non-stop music and entertainment, Anand Avasthi casts a spell of 9,000 seconds of illusion AN ELEPHANT vanishes at the wink of an eyelid and a snake turns a charming damsel in a split second... that is Jadugar Anand's Mayalok. A ...

Pushkar is India for Western People., Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar is India for Western People.

A travel blog entry by mattandcolleen

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... way in some environments, so why not make it as easy as possible if someone is trying to help, non? Anyway, 3 days in Pushkar later, we boarded an overnight bus to Jaisalmere, where the fort glows golden. This bus was qquiiitee the experience. Kind of ...

Pushkar the relax zone, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar the relax zone

A travel blog entry by scotthopkins

... as well and did some really good energy work around the lake as well... it really feels very sacred. pushkar is a big destination for israel's youth in india and there are loads of them here... it actually reminds me a bit of ibiza of all places... ...

Pushkar and more Building, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar and more Building

A travel blog entry by olliecroft

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... not too bad. Wasn’t going to complain seeing as it only cost 80p per person per night. We had a good few days in Pushkar shopping and eating at Italian restaurants! On the first night I decided to make the most of food that wasn’t curry, by ...

"shanti shanti" in holy Pushkar

A travel blog entry by gingersontour

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... nice way to start the day and once we had got passed the monkeys at the top we were rewarded with a magnificent view over Pushkar and the surrounding mountains. The temple itself was ok, but maybe with us not being very religious, we were more taken with ...

muslimani vs. hindujci, Pushkar, India travel blog

muslimani vs. hindujci

A travel blog entry by m_in_t_travels

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Namaste! Ja, jaz tudi pisem traparije. Taj Mahal je bil zgrajen za 2. zeno, ki je umrla pri 14. porodu. Ampak najina dozivetja pa niso prav nic izmisljena, lahko verjamete!! V Agri sva imela sreco, da je bilo tudi zjutraj oblacno, saj bi sicer ...

no camels for me!, Pushkar, India travel blog

no camels for me!

A travel blog entry by lbc

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... us and charge us and get us to buy coconuts, rice and spice to put in the river, so we supposedly get our ‘official Pushkar passport’ – what a load of crap, just a ploy to get money. (Apologies if that offends anyone but...) So anyway we ...

Pushkar Camel Fair, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar Camel Fair

A travel blog entry by reisender

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Pushkar - Ajmer - Jaipur, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar - Ajmer - Jaipur

A travel blog entry by izybelle

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The next day in Pushkar was more like the next few hours in Pushkar. We walked around town, went down to the ghats, obviously got some flowers shoved into our hands and these guys were asking for money since they'd 'blessed' us and our families, ...

HORN OK PLEASE!, Pushkar, India travel blog

HORN OK PLEASE!

A travel blog entry by gemboreecasali

... out with!) We had a little wonder around the shops and bought some snacks for our supposed 5 hour deluxe coach journey to Pushkar. Again, just like Thailand, chocolate DOES NOT taste like normal chocolate out here, it has a cheap Christmas taste to it... ...

what's love got to do with it?, Pushkar, India travel blog

what's love got to do with it?

A travel blog entry by rikki

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... end up trying to charge me for some service you claim was performed free of charge as a "friend". Last night I arrived in Pushkar, a lovely desert town which is curently being overrrun by tourists like myself here for the yearly camel fair. As I was ...

PUSHKAR, Pushkar, India travel blog

PUSHKAR

A travel blog entry by carolgregindia

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... in staying in is really nice (this was above our usual budget but well worth it). Although it is just outside of Pushkar, it has extensive grounds, individual bungalows, swimming pool and is just like an up-market beach resort without the sea. The ...

Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar

A travel blog entry by missroberts

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... small, medieval town, all placed around the lake in the middle. Lots of Hindu pilgrims (people who come to special holy places) come to Pushkar to visit the temples here and the lake, which they also think is holy. When you go to the lake you must take ...

Best Hotel in town for all kind of services for u, Pushkar, India travel blog

Best Hotel in town for all kind of services for u

A travel blog entry by godwinsavio

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It is located near Brahma Temple , it is only at a five minutes walk able distance from central bus stand . The fair ground is only at a distance of 3 minutes walk from AROMA. Even though it is close to fair ground , Even than quite atmosphere ...

Pushy Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushy Pushkar

A travel blog entry by bexnkizzasblog

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By chance we arrived in Pushkar when the annual camel fair was in full swing. The sun was setting over the town where we watched hot air balloons take off on their fun rides and the crowds filter out through the narrow passage ways. By dinner time we were ...

Holi in Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Holi in Pushkar

A travel blog entry by bbackson

Holi in Pushkar was nuts, colour everywhere! Saved my pants ...

India GO!, Pushkar, India travel blog

India GO!

A travel blog entry by elinazimmerman

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... his way to meet me here for three . It’s been a week now since he arrived and I’m writing now from  Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan.  The town has a population of approximately 15,000 but it is otherwise filled with tourists from ...

Lively Pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Lively Pushkar

A travel blog entry by frankandjoanne

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... 't that great. We stayed a few minutes and talked to some people and they let us take pictures. Rick Steves would be proud! Pushkar is small but is packed full of energy. The town surrounds a lake with temples dotted throughout. There are 52 bathing ghats ...

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LIVE VIDEO: say "Hello" the cool way!

A travel blog entry by fambissig

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Learned on the streets of Pushkar: how to say "Hello" the cool ...

Hippy Heaven, Pushkar, India travel blog

Hippy Heaven

A travel blog entry by trekking_asia

Hippies and Flies is perhaps the only way to describe this tourist town... It is quite cute and relaxing with lots of food but there's no water in the lake which is the real attraction! Very little to do, we walked up a massive mountain to see the ...

Best Budget hotel with good servcies, Pushkar, India travel blog

Best Budget hotel with good servcies

A travel blog entry by aroma

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AROMA is located near Brahma Temple , it is only at a five minutes walk able distance from central bus stand . The fair ground is only at a distance of 3 minutes walk from AROMA. Even though it is close to fair ground , Even than quite atmosphere ...

Tranquillita'., Pushkar, India travel blog

Tranquillita'.

A travel blog entry by marcozio

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Ieri siamo arrivati a Pushkar. Il piccolo paesino e' un enorme bazar. I turisti escono dai negozietti della via principale con borse piu' grosse di loro. Ci sono vestiti, bracciali, anelli, borse, incensi. Insomma di tutto. L'atmosfera e' particolarmente ...

Chilling in Pushkar..., Pushkar, India travel blog

Chilling in Pushkar...

A travel blog entry by daveandjess

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... had a younger guy sitting a distance away from me. We both had red and yellow Bindus put on our foreheads and the famous ‘Pushkar Passport’ put on our wrists which are ribbons that are red and yellow too. The red is to make sure you have good ...

Onwards to pushkar, Pushkar, India travel blog

Onwards to pushkar

A travel blog entry by laurenandmarkus

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... a bit emotional) and then throw the plates into the holy lake. After that we were all given our bindis and our Pushkar passports. Then we headed onto dinner (pizza for Lauren...so adventurous!) and finally off to bed (once Lauren had bought herself some ...

Pushkar and Jaipur, Pushkar, India travel blog

Pushkar and Jaipur

A travel blog entry by paulgoesglobal

... . By that stage it was about 2, so we took the rest of the afternoon off and lay around at the guesthouse doing nothing, good times. Pushkar is a holy hindu city, so they do not serve meat, eggs or beer (although "special" lassi's are listed on the menu). ...

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