Pushkar, India

Arrival: 07/08/2009

Departure: 07/10/2009

Sight Seeing: Sacared Hindu Lake (Dried)

People: Decent

Food: Poor tourist crap

Accommodations: Hotel Narayan Palace ($4 per night)

Pictures: Pictures of India

Summary: Same situation as Udaipur. India is still very hot and dry and our bodies are still weak from heat exhaustion. We did have the opportunity to be blessed in the holy lake and to say a prayer. You remove your shoes and are then escorted to the "lake" which is more like a swimming pool on the side of the dried out lake. Your escort gives you flowers and says a prayer that you repeat with them. After throwing the flower in the lake, you wet your eye brows, and ears and the escort puts a dot of dried red dye on your forehead. Surprisingly it was a very emotional experience. The rest of our stay in Udaipur was spent in the room trying to say as cool as possible. As we were leaving town to catch a 13 hour over night bus to Agra, the long awaited monsoon decided to poor rain on us until we were completely soaking wet. Yeah, it was good times on that bus ride.