Desert & camels (but no beer)....Pushkar Rajasthan

Pathway and lights to the temple on the hill
(Sunrise sunset, it's a great walk)

Pushkar is on a small lake surrounded by 52 Ghats....
steps down to the water from 52 individual temples)..
Sunrise was awesome, since there was no-one to try to sell me anything...
the lake was formed when Vishnu dropped a Lotus petal
to the desert and it formed 3 lakes....Great stories...




Pushkar is also the focus of the annual Camel Fair on a full moon weekend...supposedly more than 100,00 camels are about with all the trading and yahooing going on....Unfortunately we missed it by a few days and there were only stragglers...

They still had on their party clothes.....

Proud of his cart.....

Incredible meal.....cashew curry, cashew bhriyani, but alas no
beer....Sacred towns in India seems to limit the alcohol, meat
and eggs.....good thing for the curry....

Becky got caught with all these amazing wood cuts for
printing cloth..... great detail....

Great balance while he danced.....
Check out the video clip, the guy dancers
were great and the singers had incredibly
high voices.....Maybe it's the camels....
The music does grow on you...

                                                                                                                                 Enjoyed some very different drumming and
vocals with some dancing by what we thought were women....but...