Rajasthan tour is one of the most enchanted and joyful experience tours of India. During your tour to Rajasthan, you can experience a combination of colors in Rajasthani culture and festivals. One of the most famous and vibrant festival of Rajasthan is Pushkar Festival. It is celebrated in a sacred city Pushkar which is situated a few miles away in the north of Ajmer. Pushkar means lotus and as the name indicates the city is situated on the bank of a lake. The town is situated on the top of a hill and surrounded by the sandy dunes.
Normally, Pushkar welcomes small but continuous number of tourists for its elegant temples and amazing. But once in a year in the month of November when there is the full moon in the sky, there are thousands of people visiting the shrine as pilgrimage. Now the
Pushkar Fair is an internationally famous fair. It is one of the most vibrant, colorful and old fair in the world. The Pushkar Fair is also mentioned in the two thousand year old Mahabharata which proves that Pushkar Fair is Indias most ancient fair. Thousands of pilgrims came to Pushkar to bathe only on that auspicious day and this tradition is being followed from many years.
This fair begins on the Kartik Shukla Ekadashi and lasts for five days uptill Kartik Purnima. The days till the fair lasts, the town is converted in to a ground having a number of stalls selling each and every item of household and decoration. You will find a wide range of household stuff here which is of daily use. The visitors visiting here can not escape themselves from the amazing and mesmerizing experience as you will find every item in each stall from decoration items of cattle to a woman. The combination of different colors of the fair with the golden sand, the excitement, delightment, amusement and the confidence and enthusiasm of the villagers is a unique combination and a joyful experience for every tourist.
Apart from the religious thing, Pushkar Fair is also known for Cattle Fair. The villagers from all over the states come here with their animals to sell them. Here the cattle like Camels, Donkeys, Horses, Bulls etc are decorated and sold. Side by side the Pushkar Lake is flooded with the pilgrims for the holy activities. The other main event of the fair is Camel Sport. It starts from the Camel race. The camels are well decorated and then make to run. Then there is an event named musical chair. This game is a wonderful game to visit as you can enjoy beautiful camel playing musical chair. In this game, as the music stops, the camel has to fix their neck between the sticks hanging there. These camels are guided by their owner through a silken beautiful chord tied to its nose ring. After that there is a game of tying the huge and colorful turbans of the local males who has arrived there to sell their animals or any other decorative materials.
Generally, the things sold in the fair are beautiful bangles, pleated ghagaras, and other beautiful jewellery, like anklets, necklaces, woolen blankets, brassware, textiles, ropes, saddles and other household articles. You will enjoy a lot during the most famous fair of India.
