Pushkar

After 3 nights in Jaipur, it was time to move on to Pushkar.

This is a very small village, with a strong religious vibe.
Its quite strange, there is nothing to see here but lots of tourists! Its like being in hippy-ville! Most of the foreigners walk around with dread locks with big Om's printed on their baggy cotton tops and a colourful shoulder bag over their arm!

Pushkar is said and still considered to be holy ground, there is no meat or alcohol to be consumed in Pushkar at all, but it seems people supplement there driking with smoking, everybody seems to smoke like chimneys here! But it was nice to know that we could eat and drink everything in every place we went to, and try the food we did, dont expect 5 star type restaurants here, more like cool laid back eateries, or on roof tops in tucked away streets or by the road side. In the evening it was nice to sit by the lake and contemplate our travels, and how lucky we were in being fortunate enough to travel.

On our way to Puskar we were told that we would pass a beutiful Gurdwara on the way, we thought it would be nice to go and pay our respects, but after asking around (thats how people get about in India) we didn't find it. Arriving at Pushkar we were told that we should visit the local Gurdwara by locals, who were mainly hindu, They all called it the baby Taj and seemed proud of it, so we went in search for the Gurdwara, which was easy as everyone knew where it was, on arriving at the Gurdwara and speaking to the Gianis (priests)and Sewadars (volunteers) we were told the tenth Guru of the Sikhs Guru Gobind Singhji rested here on his way to Hazoor Sahib near Mumbai. This made Pushkar a whole lot more special to us, if its good enough for our Guru, then its more then good enough for us!

There is a huge lake where you can see gorgeous sunsets.
Also - lots of shopping! We managed to bag a beautiful jharokha made out of teak wood and a couple of very old looking frames. A jharokha is like a window frame with a shutter. These are found in the Rajathani palaces. You see, the maharanis were not allowed to be seen in public - so these shutters were placed so that they could look out of them without being seen from the outside.

It's lucky we have the car cos the one we bought is massive!