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20 Days of Delicious Indian Recipes
We are looking forward to our spiritual and culinary adventure in India that will be taking place this coming February. As part of gearing up for that adventure we will be sharing 20 delicious Indian recipes over 20 week days. So stay tuned for this and you’ll be seeing the first recipe in ...
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Pushkar’s Festivities and Parade
Continuing our coverage of our recent spiritual adventure to northwestern India. It’s our last day in Pushkar. So much going on during the Pushkar camel fair that we feel like we have so much to share. The camel trading is winding down and many of the traders are making the long walk home. ...
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The little holy town of Pushkar, Rajasthan
It’s our last full day in Pushkar. The town is bustling with people as the full moon approaches. It’s the holiest time of the month for a dip in the lake and at this time of the year it is more important than ever. The group is on their own today having been given the…
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Traders at the Pushkar Camel Fair
This is our last coverage of the Camel Fair at Pushkar and the camel traders with their colorful turbans. Tomorrow, we’ll look at Pushkar town, made holy by the sacred lake that it is built around and a rare temple to Brahma. It’s our final day at Pushkar before we move on to Samode, ...
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A spiritual adventure of festivals and ancient temples.
Join our next exciting spiritual adventure to South India and Malaysia in Jan/Feb 2012. The journey is very much focused on visiting temples, exploring deeply the mysticism of Hinduism, meeting the priests and monks, participating in mystical ceremonies in the sanctums of 1000 year old tem...
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Evening Scene at the Pushkar Camel Fair
Though it is hot during the day most Rajasthani men and women seem unaffected by the heat. As the sun makes its way towards the horizon the lighting gets perfect for photography and photographers gather in large numbers. Here’s a collection of photos from later in the day, when the sun is g...
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We arrive in Pushkar!
From Khejarla we headed further east to the holy town of Pushkar. Normally quiet and serene, it is now bustling with thousands of pilgrims, traders and livestock for the annual Pushkar Camel Fair. We stayed at some tents about 2 kms away from the main fair grounds and traveled back and forth on c...
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A night in charming Khejarla
We are a few days behind with our blogging about our spiritual adventure due to the non existing internet connection where we’ve been so we are playing catch up here. Khejarla is a charming little village about 90mins east of Jodhpur. We stopped here for a night after leaving Jaisalmer. A l...
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