15-12-2011 Into Pushkar. A very busy little town around a sacred lake where a load of different gods are worshipped, sikh, hindu and muslim. Although mainly it's sacred for Hindus. Well, after warnings form kush about dodgy priests we go into town and are immediately hastled by someone to take a flower to take to the lake and make an offering, after trying to refuse, a pushy young guy on a motorbike confronts us - "take flower! Is not for you is for God. This Holy place!". Anyway we just left them to hassle us a while longer until we escaped down an alleyway which happened to leed to the lake, where a new person confronts us with the same story, also being slightly aggressive, which didn't realy fill us with enthusiasm about this offering. After
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