Hotel Lake View Pushkar

... idea.  Also available are egg-free omelets… Don’t ask me. Besides wandering the buzzing bazaar streets, sitting at lake view restaurants drinking chai and looking at the surrounding temples, there is not too much to do here. I’ve ...

... room of the trip thus far at the 'Lakeview Hotel.' Amazingly the dungeon like room with a single bed (no sheets) and a lake view (with screen and bars), complete with exposed wire light and creaky wooden door (three boards nailed together) only cost ...

... Rajasthan controlled directly by British rather than being part of a princely state. Located just 11 kms from Ajmer, the holy lake of Pushkar is believed to have been created by Lord Brahma himself. It is as important as Benaras or Puri. Devout Hindus ...

... about $50 to my $5). Thank you Lonely Planet. We enjoyed Pushkar. The people were friendly, it was special and tranquil around the lake, our hotel had a magnificent view of the ghats, and the only colour people cared about was the colour of our ...

... when he finds us among all the mayhem.    We’re having dinner with Jerry and Sharon at their hotel, the Pushkar Fort Hotel, which is about 3kms out of town. We proceed a surprising distance along rough dirt lanes, and under a large ...

... notes in his note pad. He was very funny and very witty. We have had a great time and a very relaxed time in Pushkar. We argued with the hotel bloke at the end coz we couldnt believe we had been there as long as we had haha. He was right though! ...

... large thunderstorm came through, followed 10 minutes later by another one. I sheltered in a cave temple, but with the wind also whipping across Pushkar Lake, even at the back of the cave I got wet as the driving rain blew in. From the cave I saw a ...

... 8217;t anything special. We sat for a little while with our feet in the stream with some other tourists before returning to Pushkar.                 One of the hardest things about ...

... a lovely ring, i bought some earrings and two sliver anklets and books oh so many books. We did go down to see the lake (Pushkar is a place of religious interest, Pilgrims come to the lake to pray for their families and futures, it used to be filled with ...

... as my pictures on Facebook. After 1.5 hours fighting with a painfully slow connection, I left to meet with Yaarit at the 'Hill View Hotel'. She said that there was some cute Belgian guy there that I should go look at. I walked around asking people for ...

... to Nationwide again but no luck there. Then we spent the rest of the day sat in a car with a crazy driver driving us to Pushkar. We saw several accidents along the way too, well we didn't see them happen but we saw the left behind trucks with windows ...

... never happen at our wedding!!) Sunday morning same again…opening the curtains and still not bored of the view! Spent the day walking round Pushkar and the lake and we visited the famous Brahma temple. We got educated by a young guy who works just ...

... us conflicting information), and took the hour drive up over a mountain range to Pushkar.  We got into Pushkar and immediately went to our hotel, the Diamond, and dropped off our stuff.  Pushkar is a rather small town, centered around a ...

... . I guess it must have been around 9.30-10am.It was already burning hot. We seeked a spot in the shadow and enjoyed the view over Pushkar. It was so bright that it was almost impossible to see the other side of town. I was thinking if I would like this ...

... the very smelly public toilets! Ah well, we are here. With the intention only to stay for a few days…..hahhahahahahaha! Pushkar: A village in the middle of the desert state Rajasthan. Very different from the places I have visited in India until ...

... camel left over from the annual camel fair that took place just before we arrived. All this aside, Pushkar really is a jewel in the desert with a lovely tank (lake) right in its center.  It also has a very peculiar retro-60's hippie atmosphere with ...

... . So we ran away and went back to our hotel in the dark feeling very disillusioned about the supposed holiness of the eerily quiet Pushkar. To be honest that feeling hasnt changed much yet and we're thinking we might move on to our next port-of-call, ...

... later. i had a fantastic meditation that afternoon as well and did some really good energy work around the lake as well... it really feels very sacred. pushkar is a big destination for israel's youth in india and there are loads of them here... it ...

... ride up to the the base of the mountain the Savitri temple is atop. Savitri is Brahma's first wife. There is a great view of the valley and Pushkar lake from the top but the sky is quite misty and it makes it hard to take photos that do the view ...

... bus has driven us to an unattractive bustop and then we have been taken by jeep or autorickshaw to somewhere wonderful.  Not so in Pushkar!  The bus was followed by a hot, dusty walk - albeit with our packs pushed along on a cart by staff - to ...