Hotel Regency Ajmer
6/435, Outside Delhi Gate Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
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We LOVE the Pushkar Camel Fair
... opportunities with the highly costumed people.
Have a look at a game of Kabbadi between the locals and foreigners, which is going on in one corner of the Mela Ground. The markings on the ground in lime are complicated, not unlike a tennis court, and the rules obscure - bit like British Bulldog, where one member of the attacking team has to cross a line defended by 8 or so defenders. After, we walk back through town, checking out the street of the tin ...
Pushkar: IT’S RESPECT
... us to place the flowers into the lake, "its respect", they would say (we heard this saying over and over and over while in Pushkar). They then wanted to give us a holy blessing ceremony, after which they would demand money. And they would become very pushy too. We had to just run away in the end. There were people like this everywhere and it was a bit annoying. We had one group of girls come up to us – when they went to shake my hand, one of them grabbed it, wouldn’t ...
Rajasthan tour continues - How hot can it get???
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The next morning we left Jodhpur for Pushkar, which is a holy city especially for Lord Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. Such an important god one would think would have many temples, but there is only one temple and it is in Pushkar. The short story for this is that Brahma’s wife cursed him because he created a new wife while she was away. We’re having a hard time understanding some things about Hindu mythology but ...
Ajmer
... standing so close I could feel her breath. I kept trying to edge forward for some space, but every time she moved too. Then some young kid, about 12 years old started shouting at her for no reason and being a real bully. It was so rude and I said so, the kid just looked at me and the old lady smiled. I couldn’t handle any more so left.
Ian decided not to go in, since he said he wouldn’t leave me by myself ...
Holy shit
... a little backgammon set. It was a nice Market and we weren't hassled to buy or go into shops. The most pleasant shopping experience yet. As it was getting hot we went on the Internet, had lunch and then had our nana nap. When we woke up we walked to the top of a hill where a temple was and watched the sunset on Pushkar. Very beautiful. The next day was an early start to catch a bus to ...


