Jagat Palace Pushkar

... bed. Often we have got up early to catch a train only to wake everyone up in reception. Anyway back to Pushkar, we get to the restaurant and there is no one about, so we make a little noise and wait for a while looking at the view across Pushkar. Then we hear someone shuffling around, and the day gets underway.<br> You can see this shrine from everywhere, but we only had the vaguest idea how to pick up the path. So we wander admiring the names of the hotels ...

... and I could see why! It was an incredible, predominantly green structure with towering minarets but looked even more imposing because of all the tiny alleyways leading off all around it. It&#8217;s located in a shopping bazaar area and as all Indian women love shopping, it&#8217;s packed to the hilt. This warren of really narrow cobbled streets is like a scene from the Arabian Nights, with cloaked Muslim women mysteriously going about their lives within a personal ...

I was up around 10 AM on Wednesday and messaged Sandy. Sandy was my boss back in Taiwan. She was the one that hired me for the teaching job way back in September of 2007. We had been keeping in touch on Facebook and agreed to meet up in Pushkar. Emil and Derek...two guys with whom I worked with in Taiwan (and with whom I will do SCUBA diving stuff with on Koh Tao come June) were also coming to Pushkar and so it was going to be a bit like Gloria English School alumni reunion. I walked ...

... stayed for so long, but we decided to take some time to relax. It's a small town of about 20,000 people which is designed almost solely around tourism. Pushkar is a holy city for Hindu's so the travelers who arrive are not only from abroad, but from all over India as well. In it's center is a small lake which was under construction while we were there and it's surrounded by small rocky mountains. We met a lot of great ...

... there was still 2 seats available! We knew we had to move fast to get these so we headed to a travel agent in Pushkar. Can you book train tickets we ask (just to be sure). "No problem - take a seat" We explain to him that there are only 2 seats left. "Sure, sure" Over the next 10 minutes, he continues to chat to his cousins over our shoulder, seemingly to have forgotten that he agreed to look up tickets. After 10 minutes we reminded him that ...

... and quiet feeling at the temple so we stayed for a couple of hours. We watched a couple of foreign, kamikaze extreme sports guys attached themselves to parachutes then jump off the mountain and fly around paragliding style in the wind currents until they reached the bottom and ran off. *******n adrenalin junkies! We have a good friend called Raj who works at the internet we use. Raj works seven days a week, loves trance music, is always happy to see us and brings us ...