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Pushkar: bathing ghats and henna tattoos

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September 28th 2007
By this point we should have figured it out, traveling in India always takes twice as long as you plan. So seven hours, a short train ride (well, short cuz I slept through it...) and a standing bus ride later we were in Pushkar. The town is setup around a tiny little lake that has 52 bathing ghats around it and is surrounded by three mountains. We both took a cursory look around the hostel and dec ... 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