Pushkar

Pushkar

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February 7th 2008
After seeing all that Jaipur had to offer we headed west towards Pushkar. On the road, hoping our driver wasn't going to keel over from the bad 'tea' he had the night before, we started to see more of rural india. Including camels, the local brick factories and the strangely massive piles of dried shit. Pushkar was roughly a 3 hour drive from Jaipur with the final 20 km along a tiny dirt track. Ar ... 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