Camel race
- August 31, 2000
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Joel from Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
Pushkar is also very famous for its Pushkar Fair, India's greatest cattle and camel fair. So we have to go on a trip with a herd of camels. Around 4:00 pm we enter the semi-desert, wobbling on the back of a camel to see the sunset. We sit in the desert waiting for the sun to disappear, but it's a little bit cloudy. When it's dark we race back to town. And because it's full moon we've a good sight of what's in front of us. I finish third! I've done a much better job riding a camel in Jordan and Tunis than this time because I wounded up on my ass. After the camel adventure, we go to the rooftop restaurant Rainbow for dinner. They serve excellent vegetarian lasagna! The rest of the night, we enjoy the beauty of the full moon in the garden of our hotel, relaxing under the big palm trees. In the background we hear a mantra, chant for meditation, sang by a brahmin.
From journal Pushkar, a pilgrim's place