Pushkar Camelfare - Tents

If you ever find yourself in northern India in November make sure you go visit the Pushkar Camel fare! These photos where taken during an early morning the day after the fare had ended, and everyone was packing up. Aboslutely stunning scenery with loads of photographic oportunities.

 

Pushkar is a small village with a holy lake that the God Brahma created when he dropped a lotus leaf (or something ;) and it sprung out of the desert. Every year by the fullmoon of November around 200 000 people come to visit pushkar for this holy hapening! To make it even more crowded the largest cattle fair in the world has grown around the same event and so there are Brahmins running around the streets together with Camels and holy cows who have five hows. It is unlike anything you've ever seen.

 

For those of you who like shopping Indian souveniers we found that Pushkar has the most to offer and at the best prices. I think that the stuff we consider Indian isn't usually bought by the local Indian so you have to go somewhere half touristy to find it and this is a good choice. It's touristy but not too much and it is such a lovely little village!

 

I'll be posting more photos from Pushkar as soon as I have time to.

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