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| About
Destination |
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11 km northwest
of Ajmer City (146 km from Jaipur) in Rajasthan,
India. |
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Time : |
During Kartik Purnima or the full moon day
of October-November. |
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12
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| Highlights: |
Pushkar
Lake, Brahma Temple, Cattle Fair. |
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The
Rajasthan Government
has been supporting Pushkar Fair as an International
attraction by adding modern facilities for
the foreign guests. Every year during the
phase of Karthik Purnima you can feel this
city dance with the beat of rhythmic folk
dances and other cultural events. It is a
cultural celebration, which is carried for
a week.
In this frivolous environment you can get
yourself involved into traditional confab
of short skits, cattle trading bonanza, snake
charmers, folk songs and many other delights.
Every year approximately 200,000 people make
Pushkar their hub for entertainment. |
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For many days the localities bring with them
countless animals for racing and trading purpose,
adding up to this colorful festivity. Pushkar
fair can enthrall your heart and rejuvenate
your soul with its captivating energy of culture |
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In the land
of spirituality and
festivity of Pushkar, an extravaganza known
as Pushkar Fair is held every year during
the period of Kartik Purnima. The fair is
a weeklong celebration, which pulsates Pushkar
with its entertaining events. The traditional
folk dances and songs stimulate the environment,
which is already stirred with the thrill of
camel races and cattle fare. The mass trading
of camels and other cattle’s is the
most interesting part of Pushkar fair. Villagers
come from miles to trade over 25,000 camels,
making it world’s largest camel fair.
Enjoy cheering a camel race or get indulged
in beauty parade of camels, a beauty pageant
with a difference! |
Pushkar fair has a carnival atmosphere,
campgrounds; food stalls selling regional
flavors, acrobats, jugglers, snake charmers
and open kitchen. If you are in Pushkar
Fair, then shopping is another fun that
you will not like to miss. Embroidered clothes
embellished with mirrors, colorful shawls,
beads, bangles are easily accessible in
roadside stalls. Apart from the main attraction
of the cattle trade, this fare lures tourists
with its vivid cultural activities like
folklores beaded into songs and folk dances.
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This fair attracts
people from all over the world. Every year
the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation
does appropriate arrangements for the fairgoers.
The description of Pushkar Fair sounds very
dreamy but to experience it you need to
come over Rajasthan.
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