Pushkar

It's like going back to the sixties!!

31.01.2010 - 05.01.2010 29 °C

Pushkar was much more our scene!! Much more relaxed and easy going, you could quite easily just potter around but without the hassle of all the other places. We stayed here a few days just chillin out by the empty(!) pool by our room, it was really nice setting though. I dont know if we've mentioned this before but the cows are free to roam around where ever they want. Our room was set quite a distance from the main road, infact you would never know it was there from the road. We had a little garden (which are few and far between in this part, its mostly sandy) in between the pool and our room. So I had settled myself down to read my book on the lawn minding my own business, and I heard the gate squeak open, thinking it was one of the other residents I ignored it, but then I nearly jumped out of my skin when something snorted right behind me!! Not only had 2 cows found me but also 2 wild dogs and a pig with her 3 piglets had trotted in once the gate had been forced open by the cow!! Grass is always greener and all that!! So then we spent the next half hour trying to shoo them all out!! Apparently my herding skills need to be improved upon!

One of the reasons Pushkar is so laid back I think could have something to do with the drug usage! Lots of it going on which is why tourists get swept up into the whole spiritual thing and why the pace is taken down a notch or 2!

There is meant to be a really big lake here but it has all but dried up which is a shame. Apparently something poisoned the fish overnight sometime ago now, but locals think that its a curse from all the hoax priests duping tourists out of extortionate amounts of money for a prayer by the lake.(of course we were done by these 'priests' too!) But when they were draining the lake to see if they could find a cause for the fish dying they accidently scrapped through the clay layer and so when it does actually rain it just goes straight through!

But we didnt really do a lot in Pushkar, read a lot, played Rummy (I am officially the queen of Rummy!), wanderedf up and down the streets just looking. We found a restaurant called Original Baba and discovered Nutella pancakes!! Fantastic! and Darren stumbled across lemon and mint tea which is also very nice, but looks gross, proper spinach green and quite thick too but tastes good!

We also hit India in the middle of wedding season and loads of wedding marches are going through the town, we tried to get some good photos from one of the roof top restaurants and the colours are really bright of all the saris

So from Pushkar we get the bus to Bikaner........