India Beat on CNN’s 2011 Travel Planner
Cynthia Rosenfeld wrote about Pushkar’s Camel Fair for CNN’s 2011 Travel Planner.
Pushkar Camel Fair November 2011
“Over 200,000 people with 50,000 cattle flock once each year to the Pushkar Festival in an otherwise sleepy town in the Rajasthani desert.
Devotees believe their gods visit the town’s lake where the Hindu god Brahma dropped a lotus from heaven and water sprung.
No less sacred is the surrounding cattle fair, one of the largest in India which also draws camel traders who come to show off their hump-backed charges, painted and adorned for the occasion with silver bells and bangles around their ankles that add jingling acoustics to the Technicolor melee.”
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