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Pushkar Camel Fair Photo 10

Pushkar Camel Fair

November 10th 2008
In a word... WOW... Each year the sleepy desert town of Pushkar is transformed into an enormous fair ground and trading post. Pushkar is one of the oldest cities in India and home to the only Brahma temple in India. Brahma is the Hindu god credited for creating the world. Each year nearly half a million Hindus make the pilgrimage to Pushkar to bathe in the Pushkar lake at one of the 52 ghats in or ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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