Trip to Pushkar

My pushkar trip doesn’t costed me a single penny as all my expenses were beared by my friend as I agreed to accompany him. He was going to pushkar to perform the ritual of her grandmother which needs to be performed after the year of a person’s death as per hindu customs, this is what Pushkar is mainly known for. Apart from this there is a very famous Lord Brahma temple, and it is the only temple which exists in the entire universe.

Since it was a 8 hrs journey by bus from Delhi so we decided to start at night so that we will not waste our one day.

Day came as decided I came to the duala kuan bus stop where my friend told me meet. Duala kuan is the main place where anyone can get the buses going to rajasthan although it is not a proper bus stop but all the buses going to rajasthan stops here and picks most of there customers from this place only. Soon after I reached my friend also came and we took a private bus going to pushkar via Jaipur and ajmer. Ticket was 230/- each although there are many ways to go pushkar and many types of public means also available but I always prefers buses for short distance travel. 9 am in the morning we were at pushkar and looking for some hotel or guest house. We asked few people and they told us a hotel near by named Hotel Pushkar Palace, we caught the tempo which costed us 10/- each and in 10 mins we were at Hotel Pushkar, looking at hotel we decided not to take room seems to be a expensive one. We asked the chemist shop near by and they told us that there is a RTDC Hotel near by name Sarovar and a Pushkar lake also near by.

It took 5 min to reach hotel and tariff was also not much, 350/- for double room, we took the room and got ready and went to a pushkar lake for performing the ritual for which we came. By around 11:30 am we were free and after the breakfast in the same hotel we decided to look the places for which pushkar is famous. Puskhar is mainly known for Brahma temple so we decided to start our journey from there and we took the tempo and went to brahma temple, tempowala charged 5/- per pessanger as it was quite nearby. It was worth going, we went inside the temple performed the pooja and sculptures inside there were eye catching.

After performing the pooja we saw the lake near by, the priest there was telling there are more then 50 ghats where at the time of festival thousands of people come and perform there poojas, amazing. We asked the local guy there about the good places to see near by and he told us about a hill named after snake and based on his words, be believed and went there. Tempowala dropped us below the hill and we walked, in the top of the hill there was kund by name Naga Kund and we saw lot of devotees coming there and performing there pooja.

It was excited to see that in India such places exists and so do there stories.

We spended some time there are went for our next destiny and that was temple by the name pap mochini, here is a belief that whosever comes here gets rid of there sins. We thought that’s a myth but we are human and based on this belief we went to that temple, it was a small temple but the crowd was so much we didn’t expected and it was big queue but we joined in that queue and after sometime our turn came and we perform the pooja after coming out as others we believed that our sins are no more and will get the heaven.

It was evening when we were on the way back to our hotel as we were passing by Brahma temple we saw a restaurant named sun-n-moon, name was catching so we both decided to hop in there and have good snacks. And really it was a good deal, food was excellent and the mainly they were Mexican dishes and we noticed that most of the hotels are having Mexican, Chinese dishes mainly to attract foreign tourists and trust me in pushkar we have seen I guess equal no. of tourists.

We headed back to our hotel get our stuff packed and started for delhi although it was a short trip but experience was worth and good. There were other temples as well but because of time constraint we were not able to visit those, anyway maybe next time.