Jimmy and I have fallen in love with Pushkar! It’s sort of like Diet India because rickshaws and cars are banned and so it’s a great place to start afresh. The lake around which the town is centred was made by a lotus flower dropped by the gods and is incredible. Its sort of like a miniature Varanasi without the cremations and the traffic, which works for me! Its considered the King of pilgrimage sites in India and so there are plenty of cows, brahmins and sadhus collecting what they can from pilgrims (with all the shameless pragmatism that is so characteristic of India).
We have the annual Desert Festival in Jaisalmer to look forward to weekend after next, where moustache competitions and camel polo beckon! Tally-ho!
See some recent photos here: Click Me
