Pink hair in Pushkar

Pushkar

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March 5th 2007
March 5 - 8 We took a bus from Jaipur to Pushkar, via Ajmer. Pushkar is a cute little holy village, surrounding a holy lake - so holy that you can't wear your shoes or smoke down by the ghats (stairs leading down to the water), you can't drink alcohol anywhere in the town, and you can't eat meat - including eggs. It's so holy, yet they seem to have no problem with littering in the holy lake ( ... read more

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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