Pushkar is one of the oldest and holiest cities in India. No meat or alcohol is allowed inside the city--fortunately for us we stayed in a hotel slightly outside the actual bounds of Pushkar. Our one full day here was rather eventful. Actually, just getting here was eventful. We had our first bout of sickness, which meant leaving the previous ci...

After getting fully relaxed in Goa, we booked a flight and some train tickets to head up to Rajasthan. You can buy internal flights so cheaply here, and it is a long way to go, so we flew to Ahmedabad, from where we planned to take the sleeper train to Udaipur. Unfortunately the flight was delayed and stopped for aaaages in Mumbai. Instead of ar...

(Nicole) Pushkar is a small "hippie" town. We've seen people with lost souls (a.k.a. people with dreadlocks, tie-die shirts, shirts made of cannibus, baggy cotton pants, etc.) from everywhere...France, Spain, England, U.S., Japan, Korea, etc... There are yoga/meditation/healing centers for people to experiment with. Peter was also offered mariju...

PUSHKAR We arrived in the late afternoon to Pushkar, a small holy city famous for the sadhu pilgrims and annual camel fair. Having been forewarned by the Lonely Planet, Pan Singh, and fellow travelers, we were prepared upon arrival to refuse the flowers that so called 'holy men' push on tourists. It's unfortunate and perhaps unfair to doubt thei...