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Pushkar Slideshow
Pushkar
Travel Blogs from Pushkar, India
First Day in Pushkar
... ,Jessica and Jack spent the morning doing school work then after lunch we walked into town. What an experience! Pushkar is quite unlike anywhere we have been in India. It is a famous pilgrimage town, full of temples (it has one of the world's ...
Dan's last day at TOLFA
... again one day. After photos with the whole family, we said our goodbyes and drove into the desert just outside Pushkar town. Praveen, the Prince's brother-in-law, had suggested that we take drinks out into the sand dunes for Dan's farewell party. ...
Der Zoo nebenan
Heute sass ich so auf der Dachterasse unseres kleinen Hotels in Pushkar und beschaute mir von oben die Strasse. Es bot sich mir ein Bild, das mich, um ehrlich zu sein, gar nicht mehr grossartig verwunderte. Dabei war es schon irgendwie ungewoehnlich, halt ...
Do All Hippies Go To Heaven?
... many of you HIPPIES here. I just can't handle being around that much unbridled cool. God. So over it, already. Pushkar is a pilgrimmage city; the lake in the middle of this tiny town is holy, and all that good stuff. One thing ...
pushkar The Holy Place
... nose rings. On top of them you have loads of Holy men walking around. Most of them are stoned out of their minds. because Pushkar is a holy place Meat, Alchol and even eggs are forbidden. But pot well, that's another story. Some of them seem to smoke it ...
On the move
... to be a three day, extra intensive Hindi boot camp type thing. So far we are just really enjoying the city. Pushkar is beautiful and a wecome change from the intensity of Jaipur. Pushkar is considered to be one of, if not the, holiest city ...
Pushkar Passport
... this a better or a worse India? Nonetheless we left all behind in search of the peace offered by Brahma's lotus. Legend says that Pushkar was created because Brahma dropped a lotus on the earth and the lake was formed. And indeed in a place like this a ...
The Gods are with me
So Ive arrived In Agra a fairly inauspicious place for such a beautiful monument-well it is here in Taj Ganj-basically the backpackers district.I chose Shanti Lodge first of all but it was in great danger of falling down around me that I moved on next ...
Holy Cow this city is Holy till early in the Morn'
... until their untimely demise under my weight as I rolled over on them in my hotel room. Tailors and crafts people are very good here. Pushkar is a shopping paradise for those that like to shop, for those that don't, it is a living hell. I am not of the ...
The holy town of pushy Pushkar
... in the desert forming three small lakes. Pushkar was born. Surrounded by whitewashed temples and bathing ghats Pushkar is believed to be one of India's most sacred sites. Compared to the citys that we had just come, Pushkar is a very ...
Day 16 On the bus again, Jodpur to Pushkar
Day 16 On the bus again, Jodpur to Pushkar A beautiful scenic drive through the mountains out of Jodhpur. This is the main marble mining area in India and the second largest in the world after Carrara marble from Italy. Our guide who was a bit of a ...
The Holy Lake (and Backpacker Ghetto)
... (business) men that seem to believe that they are entitled to a donation wherever you go. If you are wearing the Pushkar passport, a string wristband that you're supposed to get after some other weird ceremony, you're supposed to be left ...
Pushkar, Camel Safari and the Holy Lake
... the blessing and mark with red scent on our foreheads. Nearby people were bathing at the knats as part of their pilgrimage to Pushkar and the brahma temple. Later in the evening we set out into the desert on a camel safari to watch the sun ...
Pushkar
Pushkar is a small town in the Rajasthan famous for two things its lake which the town is set around and is where the town gets its name from, and the thousands of Hindu pilgrims who come to the Brahma temple here (believed to be the only Brahma ...
Life as a Maharajah!
... in the way of material wealth but spent their time at home with their families and communities and had a peace and joy about them that is so rarely seen in the west. We left the village in 4 by 4's and headed off to Pushkar, the holy city of ...
Crustie Central
... pushkar im not really in the humour for bothering with capital letters today cos its too laid back and chilled out here in pushkar for things like punctuation. having a very nice chillaxo day after a very nice chillaxo night last night. but ...
Pushkar - A hippy April fools day
... and 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 ...
Public bus to the Pushkar Ghats
... wide. Even all the India's walking past on the street looked over with blatant long stares. Pushkar like the larger cities had a large selection of bookstores. India is a really amazing place for the book lover, they have everything you could possible ...
Pushkar
... would do on a chalkboard. Staying at the Master Paradise Hotel with a room right next to the pool. Prime real estate. Pushkar, the holiest city in India. Sunset over the lake. Pooja, praying to the gods for the dead. Brahaman Temple built in 14th century. ...
Day 14: Pushkar
Another day, another four hours by bus. We're headed to Pushkar. Beside the road, the temples fly iridescent rainbow-coloured flags. These aren't invites to gay-friendly establishments (homosexuality is illegal in India) but signify Buddhist shrines. We ...
Pushkar
Not much to do here, and few photographs of the town: the only place of interest is the lake, and photography is restricted due to the modesty of religious bathers at the ghats. Still, we had a very relaxing time here, it's a lot more peaceful than ...
Shout Out #23
... say." "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 ...
Puskkar
... 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 ...
Hippy Haven or Is(it)raeli?
... Israelis who think they own the place. We went down to the Ghats at the holy lake to receive our Brahma blessing and Pushkar passports. This involves throwing some flowers into the lake and repeating some Hindi words after the "priest". You get a lace ...
Acclimation to India...Dehli --> Pushkar
... day off with a wonderful dinner in a garden restaurant. The day was exhausting and a bit overwhelming, but truly wonderful. ARRIVAL IN PUSHKAR We are now writing to you from an Internet cafe in Pushkar. Pushkar is a holy city in the middle of the ...
Home comforts
... dunes which I desperately wanted to see but did not have time. We managed to catch the sun setting over the Pushkar sarovar. Suddenly the water and surroundings changed into a beautiful dusky red/orange. We finished our tour of Pushkar visiting one ...
Pushkar Passport
... sure they are making it harder for me not to be seen as a walking dollar bill. I have so far refused to get a pushkar passport... They are basically 'blessings' from extremely agressive touts, who then tie a bit of red string around your wrist that is ...
saffron brigade
... drive was through the deserts of rajasthan. anywho, reached ajmer around 5 and then had to go off track to get to Pushkar. It's a little town around a lake. mostly hippies and israelis. Checked into a hotel called pink floyds where all the rooms were ...
Camels and Kite Fights
... ;face the stares and hassles that are so much more unbearable while alone. I have loved every moment of being in Pushkar. I went on an overnight camel safari and slept under the stars in the desert. Beautiful but freezing. The guides cooked us ...
Drippy Hippies and Pilgrims
... the plush surroundings of our Udapuir hotel we started to make the final push back to Delhi with another long day in the car to Pushkar. A pit stop on the way for Nathan to jump out and buy a set of cricket stumps from the roundside and ...