Notes From A Dug - Jaipur to Pushkar Ah, Pushkar, home, home on the range. Site of the annual Pushkar Camel Sale where 20,000 camels descend on a 30,000 person village. Part of that entourage includes about 200,000 camel herders and jockeys. Unfortunately that sale is in November. What remains when we arrive are the rejects and the only temple in India to Brahma, one of the three major gods in the Hindu deity. First we check into our hotel. Pushkar is located in what appears to be an Indian backwater. No geographic reason for it to exist. No waterways, no government facilities, no rail lines. We are not expecting what we find for accommodation. Gated and designed like an upscale Hawaiian resort, we all want to melt into the loungers by the pool. Dug does
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