Pushkar

Great spelling!

Me in Pushkar

Wedding celebrations

Love the colours.

The tourist office man. Shit, forgot to turn them.

Kali having a domestic with Krishna. She has killed all his body guards and has all the heads around her. What a woman!

People doing pujas and ritual bathing

Typical Rajastani guy about his saturday business

What a SUPERB day. What a fantastic place. I want to eat dinner and the restaurant closes in half an hour so I will focus on uploading some photos first. I have done Puja (holy praying with Guru near the lake) this involved flowers and herbs and spices on a plate. Telling him the names of people you want to pray for and then reciting a mantra and then they bless you with holy water from the lake and you throw all the crushed flowers behine you and you put your sum of money on top of a coconut and it's taken to the charity box. Then the guru puts a red mark on your forehead and ties string round your wrist. (Right wrist if you are single and left wrist if you are married)

This lake is one of the holiest in India for Hindus and it has the only Brahma temple in the whole of the world. It is full of pilgrims from all over India and it's really chilled out. There is no hard sell and everybody just kinda chills out together.

I had a guide this morning. A 17 year old student who showed me around the town. It's small. I'm glad i did because doing the puja was quite complicated. I had to go to the Brahma temple first and collect my flowers there but you pay no money and then walk down to the lake. Where you collect your tray of herbs and spices and coconut and then wit for a guru to approach you and take you down the steps of the ghat (like a platform near thelake).

All must sound well hippy and weird and as you all know I AM NOT A HIPPY! But could get into living here. Thank you Sanju for saying I should be here for three days. Looking forwrd to chilling out again tomorrow but decided not to go swimming in the pool. Think I might catch some kind of skin disease or internal rotting...it doesn't look too clean!!

After I said by to my guide I went to a cafe and chatted to a french woman and a girl from Birmingham. Had great food there and then found the tourist information centre hidden away and stayed with the guy in there for about half an hour. He was funny, he wanted to know how much my sunglasses cost and the functions on my mobile and was helpful with the maps and told me that if I wanted a healthy baby I had to go and pray at a certain temple. I had to sign my name in a big book and he put a star next to my name so that he would remember me! (I have to go back to Pushkar once I have had my super healthy baby to show him)