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A spiritual adventure of festivals and ancient temples.
Join our next exciting spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia in Jan/Feb 2012. The journey is very much focused on visiting temples, exploring deeply the mysticism of Hinduism, meeting the priests and monks, participating in mystical ceremonies in the sanctums of 1000 year old temples and more. I'll conduct classes along the way sharing with you about Hinduism, its culture and tradi...
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Nov 11, 2011 Evening Scene at the Pushkar Camel Fair
Though it is hot during the day most Rajasthani men and women seem unaffected by the heat. As the sun makes its way towards the horizon the lighting gets perfect for photography and photographers gather in large numbers. Here's a collection of photos from later in the day, when t
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Nov 10, 2011 1 MINUTE READ
Morning Scene at the Pushkar Camel Fair
So I decided to wake up early (4:45am) on our first day at the Pushkar Camel Fair and head in to see what life was like pre-dawn. I headed out with my camera on a camel cart and arrived at the fair about 25 minutes later. Traders were slowly waking up. Small fires can be seen her
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Nov 9, 2011 1 MINUTE READ
We arrive in Pushkar!
From Khejarla we headed further east to the holy town of Pushkar. Normally quiet and serene, it is now bustling with thousands of pilgrims, traders and livestock for the annual Pushkar Camel Fair. We stayed at some tents about 2 kms away from the main fair grounds and traveled ba
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Nov 9, 2011 1 MINUTE READ
Rajasthan Street Food
Here are a couple of videos on Indian Street Food cooking taken during our time at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. Yummy! This man has been cooking up amazing dishes all night at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. Vijay Kumar, originally from Guwahati in the state of
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Nov 8, 2011 Sadhus at the Pushkar Fair parade
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Nov 8, 2011 1 MINUTE READ
A night in charming Khejarla
We are a few days behind with our blogging about our spiritual adventure due to the non existing internet connection where we've been so we are playing catch up here. Khejarla is a charming little village about 90mins east of Jodhpur. We stopped here for a night after leaving Jai
