Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Pushkar, Pushkar, Pushkar...

Pushkar is like a movie set. Pushkar is hypnotic, calm and heady.  Pushkar is quiet, peaceful and spiritual.  Pushkar is like a wild west set of a John Wayne movie.

Crumbling old buildings in dusty pink, cornflower blue and faded jade.  Lattice work and wooden framed ornated doors and windows.  It is a spiritual place and you can feel it.  All the people we have spoke to are born and raised in Pushkar or very close by and have no interest in going anywhere else.

It could do with a lick of paint and the ghats could do with weeding and cleaning.  Its a place that would benefit hugely from a major investor, it needs money to survive.  But having said this, its charm is the crumbling building s and laid back atmosphere.

Its actually a bit too laid back for me.  Three nights is enought.  I am the calmest I have ever been in my life here.  But I am not one for yoga or meditation so I struggle with what I am to do with myself.  Its a day trippers paradise.

We have been lucky to have been able to afford to stay in luxury at the Pushkar and Jagat Palaces. Its as if someone has opened their home for us.  We are alone here.  Its out of season so we are only 2/4 people staying here.  I have a swimming pool, garden, and hotel to myself.  What ever we want we get.  'Your wish is my comand' I feel as if I have a genie.

The service and the food is lush and the people are lovely.

Karen x

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