Ajemr-Pushkar Travelogue-Part 2

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          So after ZZ talked to few taxi-drivers, we agreed for Rs. 300/- for taxi to Pushkar and within half and hour we had reached our hotel . We had already done the hotel booking through www.ixigo.com.

          Pushkar is a small town and the whole town surrpunded around the pious Pushkar lake. Legend has it that the gods released a swan with a lotus in its beak and let it fall on earth where Brahma would perform a grand yagna. The place where the lotus fell was called Pushkar. Pushkar in Sanskrit means blue lotus flower.

          Our hotel was on the out-skirts of Pushkar. So after taking some rest we took an auto to go to Brahma Temple. Cameras, handbags are not allowed inside the Brahma temple but mobiles are. I didnt find any govt. locker facility but the shopkeepers in the vicinity of temple have make-shift locker facility to store cameras and handbag.

         There were people around clicking photos of the temple from their mobile of the temple. But when we were clicking, two policemen told us that photography is not allowed. Anyhow by then we already clicke done photo which I am posting here.

     

Brahma Temple-Pushkar in the night

           After a quick darshan, we decided to explore the local market and look for some good restaurant for dinner. There were a lot of foreign tourists around and road-side restaurants serving Middle-east dishes like humus, falafel, pita bread among others. We picked Baba restaurant for our dinner. The next day time-pass hub and lunch-place was also this restaurant only.

Baba restaurant

dinner at Baba Restaurant

          Pushkar is also known as the city of Ghats. Next day I tried to click pics of as my Ghat names as I could. These are a few of them:

             We also visited the old Rangji Temple at Pushkar. Rangji temple is an perfect blend of Rajasthani and Soth-temple architecture. There is also a famous Rangji temple in Vrindavan as well which is made in South-indian style architechture.

              We had our train (Ajmer -Pushkar Shatabdi) at 3:45pm. So after a light lunch, we left Pushkar by 2:00pm via local bus. Go local!!!

              

             Pushkar is a small town and on can easily do a Ajmer-Pushkar in a single day without any night-halt. So here end this two-day journey.

          This is my first travelogue in the blog and jope I continue to share the travel tales here.