Blogs from Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 26

After our meeting with the Guru we decidd to carry on the religious theme and visited our first Sikh Temple in India - this is a place where we had to cover our heads - luckily i'd done a lot of scarf buying today so had an array of scarves to choose from - the hippy in me coming to light!! Anyway you're probably wondering why the John Wayne reference - well we had to make a mad dash after the temple, to prepare ourselves for a sunset camel trek!! Thats right we went a camel riding!! We meet our guides outside the hostel and come face to face with our camels - what a handsome duo they were - the camel that is!! Although my camel didn't particularly look like he was up for a ... read more

After another exhausting bus ride we arrived in the small town of Pushkar. It is a cute town set in the middle of the desert with a lake in the middle and 300 temples. Dave is set on the idea that a lotus flower was dropped in the desert and that is how the lake was formed..im still not convinced. In this town meat, eggs and alcohol are forbidden which makes all the menus a bit different from anything we have tried with weird substitutions. None of the restaurants are too sanitary and the hotels here are fairly dirty and not charming at all. Luckily we are only paying 4$..it is pretty disgusting but its only a couple days and we couldnt find anything better for even 10$. There is really not much to do here ... read more

So here it is, my first blog, Im typing it on a keybord where the letters have all been rubbed off, which is proving rather difficult seeing as Im not a typing pro for starters. Tamara and I arrived in Pushkar today after a not so bad train ride from New-Delhi. We booked at this hotel which was in the budget (not midrange) section of our already budget guide. I was a bit dubious but in fact the hotel is really beautiful with an amazing roofterrace overlooking the entire town. On arrival we were aproached by a taxi driver who promised to take us to our hotel. He did not do so and left us to find our way. We argued ffor a while but then gave up and decided to walk with our backpacks to ... read more

Namaste all, I'm currently spending time in the town of Pushkar in Rajasthan in India's north after having left Dehli on the morning of the fifth. Sam and Chris met me at the airport, and it was damn fine to see them. They even had a sign to meet me with. In true overseas fashion, they had mispelt it. Sam was (and is) looking furry, and I have a lot of respect for his beard (sorry Amanda). Settle (Chris) is his good old jovial self, and stands a full foot among the people here - a real boon when trying to find him. Whisked off from the airport, I didn't actually get to see much of Delhi, nor would I, as we left for Pushkar the next day at the ungodly hour of six am, squeezing ... read more

PUSHKAR Arriviamo a Pushkar con un treno locale che impiega circa venti ore a percorrere poco piu' di 400 kilomentri!!! Il treno espresso, in questi giorni di feste natalizie, era pieno e questa e' stata l'unica opzione disponibile (ad un costo veramente basso c'e' da dire) per la data per cui avevamo deciso la nostra partenza. C'e' tanto di bello nel viaggiare su un treno che avanza a bassissima velocita' fermandosi ad ogni piccola stazione. Prima di tutto si vede veramente scorrere lentamente il paesaggio fuori dal treno apprezzandone le lievi e costanti variazioni ed inoltre fermandosi a tante stazioncine c'e' il gusto di prendere un giornale qua, una cosa da mangiare la', scherzare con un bambino qua, prendere un chay la e cosi' via... Pushkar quindi; piccola cittadina al centro del Rajastan ormai meta ... read more