Someone on the bus out of Pushkar asked us why we had come to visit and the fact that neither of us could answer him probably tells the story - there isn't much here.
We arrived into a bit of typical indian town, lots of coughing, spitting and rubbish but the difference here was the smell...there were dead fish all over the lake in the centre of the town.
There is a festival to Ganesh (the elephant god of good fortune) each year. Locals carry mini metal statues of the god through the streets before laying them into the water of a holy river or lake. In Pushkar, just 3 days before we arrived they immersed thousands of statues into the lake and by a cruel twist of irony managed to kill 10,000 of the holy carp that lived there. God of good fortune my ass. You can imagine the smell of 10,000 large fish baking in 35 degree heat for 3 days! Luckily we managed to get out before the flies and the stench got too much.
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Hi,
I thing you came to know reality of typical towns of India where lots of smell , cough and rubbish kinds of things are there.
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