Pushkar, holy city and therefore vegetarian. No eggs here either, this is starting to be a common practice, but after more than two months in here, very few things will actually shock me. The usual prohibitions, meat, eggs, alcohol and drugs, although you're constantly offered the latter, as soon as you step out of the hotel. Although the kind of tourism I'm doing, isn't the typical organized by an agency, quite often, those travelling with agencies and those who don't, end up in the same places. What's different, is the way we move within the country, some in air conditioned buses, others, like me, travel with the crowd, chickens and cockroaches, sweating and fighting to get a seat on the bus. I'm not complaining, this is how I've chosen to do it, and I'm indeed living the whole experience very intensely, although they try to cheat me just the same. Anyway, talking about Pushkar, another holy city, yet well known for being the place where the largest camel fair in India is held. The only Brahma temple in India is also here, and life in Pushkar evolves around the central lake and its 52 ghats. Nevertheless, they have set up a great business in here, with all that spirituality and holy cities, which in many cases, I personally think is a rip off. There are probably some really spiritual people not interested in money, but so many second-rate priests offering you to buy flowers and make an offering to the Ganga river and its Gods to protect your family, goes hand in hand with really bad manners if you don't give them the 60, 70 or 80 rupees or more they ask you to pay. Luckily enough, all of these doesn't stop the scenes in the ghats from being really amazing. Men washing their 9 metres long turbans, and hanging them out to dry, others bathing in a kind of pool they've built in one of the ghats, and the many more blessing and purification scenes so frequent in this country. Dozens of shops along the main bazaar, many craftsman working with silver and producing tailor-made earrings and rings on the spot in less than thirty minutes. In the pic, he was making a silver and turquoise ring for my niece. We're leaving for Jaipur tomorrow.
martes, 21 de octubre de 2008
Pushkar - La Ciudad de los Camellos
Pushkar, holy city and therefore vegetarian. No eggs here either, this is starting to be a common practice, but after more than two months in here, very few things will actually shock me. The usual prohibitions, meat, eggs, alcohol and drugs, although you're constantly offered the latter, as soon as you step out of the hotel. Although the kind of tourism I'm doing, isn't the typical organized by an agency, quite often, those travelling with agencies and those who don't, end up in the same places. What's different, is the way we move within the country, some in air conditioned buses, others, like me, travel with the crowd, chickens and cockroaches, sweating and fighting to get a seat on the bus. I'm not complaining, this is how I've chosen to do it, and I'm indeed living the whole experience very intensely, although they try to cheat me just the same. Anyway, talking about Pushkar, another holy city, yet well known for being the place where the largest camel fair in India is held. The only Brahma temple in India is also here, and life in Pushkar evolves around the central lake and its 52 ghats. Nevertheless, they have set up a great business in here, with all that spirituality and holy cities, which in many cases, I personally think is a rip off. There are probably some really spiritual people not interested in money, but so many second-rate priests offering you to buy flowers and make an offering to the Ganga river and its Gods to protect your family, goes hand in hand with really bad manners if you don't give them the 60, 70 or 80 rupees or more they ask you to pay. Luckily enough, all of these doesn't stop the scenes in the ghats from being really amazing. Men washing their 9 metres long turbans, and hanging them out to dry, others bathing in a kind of pool they've built in one of the ghats, and the many more blessing and purification scenes so frequent in this country. Dozens of shops along the main bazaar, many craftsman working with silver and producing tailor-made earrings and rings on the spot in less than thirty minutes. In the pic, he was making a silver and turquoise ring for my niece. We're leaving for Jaipur tomorrow.
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