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The Fairly Great Thar Desert
We got to Bikaner at 4:30 am, fell into a rickshaw, and went to sleep as soon as we got our room at the Shri Ram Guesthouse. Bikaner is not a big tourist destination; we went only for the camel safari adventure. The fort has some neat mosaics, although you are required to tour with a guide who speeds through the rooms like Secretariat, so it's good …
Camels in Bikaner
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After we'd escaped the desert and Mani, Margot, Geoff and Dave had all gone home, we visited the near by unpleasant smelling Rat Temple. There were rats everywhere, alive and dead. People who visit the temple consider the rats to be auspicious and buy sweets to feed them. I'd happened to buy some ...
Of crowds and camels
... that this day was the festival of Ganguar, in which statues of the Maharajah (which would be brought out of the Junagarh fort under police guard) and Shiva and Parvati would be carried in a procession through the streets. He explained about the tradition of bringing water offerings to each statue, initially because water had been so scarce in the desert before electrically pumped deep wells. Sunil also gave us a detailed explanation of a touristic route we could take back to ...
In the desert with camels and the three (wise) men
... br> Jitu points out piles of plastics to us that are scattered everywhere here in this part of the desert. He asks us if we have any idea where this garbage would have come from. We shook our heads and he explained. Every pile of plastic is what remains from one dead cow. After feeding on garbage on the streets their whole life long a lot of plastic accumulates in the four stomachs of a cow. Indigestible human garbage is all that is left at the end of the life of a holy Indian cow…
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In an indian desert town
... einer Krankheitsübertragung durch die Ratten auf den Menschen. Dazu muss man wissen, dass die Tempelbesucher Milchtee trinken, der mit der Milch hergestellt wird, von denen die Ratten bereits getrunken haben. Vielleicht ist am Ende gar doch etwas dran, am außergewöhnlichen, heiligen Dasein dieser Ratten?
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Bikaner is a real desert city in the middle of Rajastan, the land of the Maharajas. In the center of town there is a ...
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