Ciazzler® Roadtrip | Pushkar Camel Fair - A Photologue Pushed to undertake a trip to Pushkar  "I have a crazy idea to go to Pushkar on 9 & 10 November to see the Camel Fair. Are you interested? I can reach Delhi on 9/11. It's either a 7-hour drive or afternoon flight to Kishangarh. I have to reach Kolkata on 11/11."
This WhatsApp message from a schoolmate, Suchatte, who lives in the UK (not Uttarakhand!) and is an avid photographer, at the end of September set the ball rolling for this hurricane trip to Pushkar. It started with a trip to the airport a little after 3 am on 9/11/19; a 400-km drive to Pushkar followed by a 7.5-km walk through the fair in the afternoon and evening on 9/11/19; a few hours of disturbed sleep (more about that later); waking up at dawn on 10/11/19 and another 10-km walk to "capture" the sunrise, and later visit the Brahma temple; a 10-hour drive back home, to reach at midnight; and finally, another trip to the airport at 10 am on 11/11/19! 
First task on hand: finding accommodation. Prices of decent hotels (read: car parking available) in and around Pushkar for the period of the camel fair are through the roof. The cheapest option we can find are 2 non-AC rooms at the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation's Hotel Sarovar - and what tilted matters in the Sarovar's favour is the location, right next to the Pushkar Lake.
Ample parking, spacious rooms, clean toilets, a reasonable tariff (despite the seasonal hike during the camel fair - yes, even RTDC does it!), breakfast and one meal included in the room charge (buffet of simple vegetarian fare), and very friendly and cooperative staff, all made us feel at home immediately. Yet, at bedtime, I discovered that the fan in our room has a 'binary' regulator - full speed or nothing! Unfortunately, the blanket was prickly (yeah, I know, camels love prickly stuff - I dont!), and entirely ruined a peaceful night's sleep.
Of course, motorized traffic is blocked off from entering Pushkar for the duration of the fair. So here we are, waiting for someone from the hotel to be despatched, to show us the way past those barriers, through narrow lanes, to arrive at the hotel. The cops aren't friendly, but we managed to park the car finally. Parked Some of the photographs in this thread are by Suchatte, and I have tried to acknowledge the same for specific pics as far as possible.
Last edited by SS-Traveller : 21st November 2019 at 17:34.
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