Pushkar - the place I was destined to go.....
At 14.10 on a Friday noon, I received a message from the irctc that my train has been cancelled, I had my trip planned to my home town but as I said earlier, destiny.So what I did was , I called my travel buddy Nayan to ask if his trip to Jim Corbett National Park was still in place, but it wasn't to be , they have changed their plan and decided to visit Pushkar instead.
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Sunrise from RTDC guest house
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We boarded the bus from Kashmiri gate at 23:00 and reached pushkar around 9 in the morning, where we first decided to roam around the city and took good 3 and a half hours for deciding which place to stay at. We finally decided for a government guest house in RTDC.
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Pushkar Lake
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The day started and we slept, our day started at like 3 in the afternoon when we finally decided to move out of our hotel room, the pushkar lake is a beautiful place to be, just sit there, look at things and think, if you want to of course . We went around the place and checked out a few places starting with the Nirvana cafe, personally I didn't like the place, or maybe the aura of the place , the location was good , food wasn't , not up to our expectations , then we went ahead searching for doctor's cafe which we never found, then we went visited la pizzeria, awesome ambiance, nice place, cool drinks, in was a good experience after all, we tried some local food too, malpua and moong ka halwa, being from Varanasi it wasn't that tasty but it was nice.
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View from Savitri Temple
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Then we booked a night safari for the next day (and I am writing this sitting under a starry night), we also visited the Brahma temple, and then did a trek of Savitri temple, from there we took the camel and came for the night safari. Its cheap too, plus it's worthy.
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Pushkar Lake from NirvanaCafe
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So we all did some camel riding on the way here , the dinner served was delicious, mast, as we say.......Right now we are sitting around a bonfire telling stories, watching stars and thinking or not thinking, maybe this is a nice way to reach your birthday ,let's see how this goes......
It went awesomely good, I woke up around 5 am , but since none of them wanted to go , I slept too, woke up at around 7 - 7.30 to an amazing foggy sky, chilled air and everything else I want the weather to do on my birthday , after a great dinner yesternight we were served with hot tea (2 cups actually ) and delicious breakfast, after the breakfast we rushed , other than naina to get ready (he takes his own sweet time) , and then when he was ready we again took a camel cart ride to our way back to the pushkar city.
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Ropeway Down from Savitri Temple
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View of Pushkar City from Gayatri Temple
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Next on our to do list was a second trek to the gayatri temple, not as long or steep as the savitri temple but a fun and safe trek, we reached there around 11 am, just sat there for a while,
under the warm sun singing karaoke and (me attending whatever no of calls I had) and then begun descending down to the town again, 10 minutes later we were there.
What started with a search for ATM (which we never found , not one which disposes cash atleast ) turned into a shopping fest, taking our sweet time (which we had plenty) we shopped for ourselves and our family, after that we went to doctor's cafe (doctor alone to be exact) had our lunch, then there was a second round of shopping for diaries , after that we took a bus to Ajmer, now that little trip in between our trip is a nice experience , not just because of the light show we saw on our way but because we were joined by a fifth member , a solo traveler, a girl studying in Madras, we went for the movie dangal, because we had nothing else to do........
We all enjoyed the movie, half way between we realized that we may just have to leave the hall before the movie finishes to catch our train back to the railway station. We finally decided to leave the hall at 10.20, managed an auto at 10.25 , just 10 minutes before the schedule arrival of the train, but we still wanted to have the icecream, it was an easy find as we settled for an amul kiosk, but the movie was still unfinished , which we did finish once the train was in motion. After the movie we tried watching humorously yours, tried because even jio was unable to stream the video.Now standing inside a metro on my way to office I am finally concluding my travel log, the first one. Something new and interesting to add in ones hobby I guess.
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Pushkar - more than just a holy city.
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