Tuesday 14 January 2014

Pushkar - day 2

Overslept! But that's good as we weren't expecting to do much work today. Banana pancake with honey for lunch with strong coffee, then we went to find one of our manufacturers who was at home flying kites with his family. This guy is also a trustee of TOLFA (Tree of Life for Animals) whom we support back in the UK through selling our goods. I've just sponsored a kennel out here for a year so I hope we will have time to go there. If so I will report back! 
Not much kite flying but everyone was trying their best to bring down their opponents kites. There was lots of music and dancing on the rooftops and I shot some video so I will try and upload a few things. We then bought some jingly dangly mobiles and had a walk around the holy lake. This is a record - we had 15 minutes to ourselves of peace and quiet before we were accosted by someone wanting you to worship with him and then once you stop then it's open season for others to accost you, albeit in a gentler fashion than Delhi. In our peaceful moments we saw lots of birds - a large kingfisher too - and enormous pike that must have been over 2 feet long. 
I saw some lovely shawls too - but for the web they must be identical else you will be photographing everything singly and that's no good really. One of 'many problem' that exists doing business here. 



1 comment:

  1. I was amazed to see an alligator crawling up Bernstein chest- that there lake has certainly grown a lot bigger since I was there last. But it's still as beautiful and warm weather too you lucky people.

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