We arrived in pushkar yesterday afternoon and were pleased to discover the hotel has a swimming pool (the further south we get the warmer it's getting).
Pushkar is a more strict and religious town compared to the rest so there is no swearing, no meat, no alcohol and clothes which don't cover the knees or shoulders are not to be worn.
The rest of the group opted to take part in a camel ride into the dessert and camp out for the night due to me being against riding animals and not knowing the facts of whether they are mistreated I didn't join in this activity and opted to stay at the hotel for the night, after visiting the Brahma temple and the holy lake. We have been strongly advised not to accept flowers off of anyone if we do we have to perform rituals and pay for this.
Today we had a free day so I chose to go to the local market first thing. With markets over here the idea is to barter the price down so we were advised to offer half what they tell you it costs if they say no walk away and they will follow. This did work for a scrap book I brought I managed to get it lower than half but it didn't work for everything. I think the main reason this seems to work is because as your walking a lot of the stalls are the same so they want your business knowing that you can just walk three stalls down and find the same product.
After walking through the market the temperature was getting warmer nearly 40°c so I went back to the hotel and sat by the pool for the rest of the afternoon.
In the evening the option was a tuk tuk ride to another temple where we would then walk over 400 steps up to view the town from the top. When we arrived there was an option to take a cable car so we did that instead of walking up. When we reached the top there was hundreds of monkeys and we were advised they can charge and if you upset them it will be worse so we tried to keep away from them. But the view was amazing from the top and you were able to walk all round so you could see each part of the city.
Pushkar is a more strict and religious town compared to the rest so there is no swearing, no meat, no alcohol and clothes which don't cover the knees or shoulders are not to be worn.
The rest of the group opted to take part in a camel ride into the dessert and camp out for the night due to me being against riding animals and not knowing the facts of whether they are mistreated I didn't join in this activity and opted to stay at the hotel for the night, after visiting the Brahma temple and the holy lake. We have been strongly advised not to accept flowers off of anyone if we do we have to perform rituals and pay for this.
Today we had a free day so I chose to go to the local market first thing. With markets over here the idea is to barter the price down so we were advised to offer half what they tell you it costs if they say no walk away and they will follow. This did work for a scrap book I brought I managed to get it lower than half but it didn't work for everything. I think the main reason this seems to work is because as your walking a lot of the stalls are the same so they want your business knowing that you can just walk three stalls down and find the same product.
After walking through the market the temperature was getting warmer nearly 40°c so I went back to the hotel and sat by the pool for the rest of the afternoon.
In the evening the option was a tuk tuk ride to another temple where we would then walk over 400 steps up to view the town from the top. When we arrived there was an option to take a cable car so we did that instead of walking up. When we reached the top there was hundreds of monkeys and we were advised they can charge and if you upset them it will be worse so we tried to keep away from them. But the view was amazing from the top and you were able to walk all round so you could see each part of the city.
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