Enjoying the display put on for us by the fabric sellers. We left empty handed!

No beer allowed in Pushkar!

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April 4th 2007
“You are drinking beer? You are drinking beer in holy Pushkar? You know it is not allowed.” Matt, beer in hand, couldn’t deny it. He was drinking beer in the little desert town of Pushkar and, to make matters worse, he knew he shouldn’t have been. “What is your name?’ “Er, Matt” “Where are you from?” The waiter was growing increasingly irate. “Norway.” “Will you please ... 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