Pushkar Travel Blogs

Pushkar is not as well as it could be.  Or as it would like to be.  A year or so ago, in final protest to the infinite tributaries of human detritus - chemical, material and organic - that must have found their way to the waters of the town's eponymous and sacred lake day in and day out, …

I got into Pushkar about 8.30 pm, and made my way round the lake to the hotel. I stayed in OM, it's swimming pool had not yet been filled up but the room was 100 rupees a night, and they have a really cool pet tortoise there who eats bananas! It is so relaxed in PUshkar and you get no hassle from …

Pushkar Pooja Trap The heart of Pushkar is a holy lake ... this is the scene of the biggest tourist trap which I'll call the Pushkar Pooja Trap.  Holy men (and those pretending to be) will accost visitors on the streets and hand them a marigold then strike up a conversation about how many fam…

When I arrived at Pushkar, it turned that it was a little town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants. It's really relaxed to stay at Pushkar, the place to be is at one of the ghats at the holy lake of Pushkar. In August there were many pelgrims visiting Pushkar and the holy lake. I walked around Push…

It has been a long few days.  We started off with a camel trek through the Thar desert.  The camels are a little different than the ones in Morocco were.  People ride them two at a time...driver and rider and as a result, they go a lot faster.  All of us had some pretty sore bac…

OK - now my photos start to shine!! It just so happens that the famous Pushkar Camel Fair is this week.   It purposely coincides with the lunar calandar in November and is one of the largest holy pilgrimages in India.  Over 200,000 people make a pilgrimage here to bat…

Woke up really early - partly due to new surroundings, partly due to the lack of AC causing the room to boil! Walked around Pushkar, explored. Headed back to hotel to cool down. Went out again to have a look around. TO BE UPDATED...

After the Rat Temple we drove to Pushkar, home of one of India’s sacred lakes and known for it’s annual Camel Fare which brings in throngs of tourists and camel traders and sounds quite chaotic and colorful (it’s in November so we won’t be seeing it this time..) it was a hot, dusty day (not…

Delhi, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, the Thar desert, Pushkar, Udaipur, Ajanta, Ellora, Mandu, Khajuraho, Orchha, Rishikesh, Manali and Dharamsala.

I had heard from friends and read numerous books about India, but it didn’t matter, nothing could possibly prepare me for this country. It was a surreal feeling leaving my world of normality, to then step in a place that only existed in my faint imagination. An imagination that I was now breathing. An imagination that had connected with me so strongly that I was sure to return and re-live that first experience.

My 6th trip in India and this time with my whole family. We went to Rajasthan in all the most important places except Udaipur...

Pushkar is located about a 6 hours drive from Jaipur, in the county of Rajasthan, and is one of many holy cities in India.  It's also one of the oldest.  Pushkar lies near the lake Pushkar, a holy lake, where you can find about 52 ghats.. where pilgrims bathe in the sacred …

4 weeks of traveling in Rajastan India

Trip to India was one of the best in my life!

Travelling alone.. grand tour around North and Northwest India in Oct 2007.