India. Pushkar
Arriving in Pushkar by night bus from Jaisalmer, we immediately headed to the sacred lake, where a ritual was performed for us and we spent two full days savoring the tranquility and boundless color of this place...
Map of our journey through India...
Before finding a guesthouse for the night, we walked around the entire lake, looking for the best place to stay so we could spend these two days as close to the lake as possible...
And we found such a place...
Our room was right next to a café-terrace, which offered a fantastic view of the lake surrounded by mountains... After settling in, we immediately ordered masala tea there...
The views from our guesthouse were so amazing that we spent quite a lot of time just gazing at the scenery...
Pushkar is a truly legendary city... The legend tells of the supreme god Brahma, who descended from the heavens to earth and, reaching the territory of present-day Pushkar and entering a forest full of various trees and animals, stayed there for a thousand years. After that, he threw a lotus to the ground, causing the earth to tremble to its very soul, and at that place, a lake was formed...
The gods were amazed, and not knowing what caused the earth to shake, they went to find Brahma... However, upon reaching the forest, they could not see him... Then the gods went into meditation to see Brahma, and after some time, Brahma became visible to them... Finally seeing the Creator God, they told him about the worries caused by his dropping the lotus and asked the reason for it... Brahma replied that a demon, who was taking the lives of children, was waiting in the forest to kill the gods, but he caused its destruction by dropping the pushkara, which in Sanskrit means blue lotus...
For Hindus, Pushkar is a holy place that grants religious merits and is also one of the rare places where a temple dedicated to Brahma is located...
As is known, the most religious places accumulate very strong positive energy, which an open heart and soul can feel well...
Pushkar is one of the oldest cities in India, now home to only about 25,000 residents, and is also called the king of all pilgrimage places... This small town welcomes more than a million tourists a year, 95 percent of whom are Indians...
After resting on the picturesque terrace of our guesthouse, we went for a walk...
Pushkar has numerous Hindu temples, and most of them are off-limits to non-Hindus... But there are some that you can enter...
The most important one is the Brahma Temple, where belongings must be left with the security before visiting, and photography is prohibited inside... Entrance to the temple...
After visiting the main temple of the town, we continued our walk through the colorful streets, where many interesting things were sold...
One of our favorite drinks during the journey was the traditional Indian drink - lassi, made from yogurt...
Lassi is sold chilled, usually in disposable clay cups...
For lunch, we tried Rajasthani thali...
The most interesting part of the town were the ghats - steps leading to the lake where Hindu rituals and bathing take place... There are 52 ghats around the lake...
It is in such places that you can feel the tranquility...
Sunset in Pushkar was also fantastic...
After sunset, we took another walk along the ghats...
The next day we just walked around the lake, sat on the ghats, watched the rituals, enjoying the atmosphere and peace, in a place that seemed beyond our usual reality... That's why we came to Pushkar, that's why we love India so much...
Taking the meditation bowl we bought the day before to the ghats, I began creating vibrations that produced a pleasant sound...
This intrigued the Indians, who started gathering around me, curious about the nature of the bowl's sound...
The bowl's vibrations were really pleasant and resonated with the other people, who were very positively inclined... So I was pleased to share these vibrations...
And in the evening, walking around the lake by the ghats, we saw how a Hindu hermit lived under the arch of a bridge...
The next morning we took a train to Udaipur, the next destination of our Indian adventure...
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