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PUSHKAR CAMEL FAIR 2008
The Fair-The Festival
Come the month of Kartik (Hindu Calendar-Cct/Nov) each year, and you see the sleepy town of Pushkar waking up to metamorphose into the most vibrant , hustling bustling town of Rajasthan. For this is the time of one of the biggest MELA (Fair) of Rajasthan_The Camel Fair.
The fair was originally for the selling and buying of Camels by the people of villages surrounding Pushkar. To sell the camels, it was necessary to make them most presentable, so the need to decorate them, and then was born the Camel beauty Contest. For the Beauty contest came up stalls of camel accessories. As people from villages far and wide came and spent days here , there had to be food stalls. The women folk came along with their men so obviously the fashion accessory stalls had to be there. Thus was born the present day face of the Fair- the camels, the food stalls, the local fashion accessory stalls, the camel beauty contest, the local music and cultural shows, other livestock(horses, sheep, goat, cows) trading shops. So here you find a mind boggling combination of local culture, music, riot of colours ( if form of colorful men turbans, women Ghagras_ the long tunic, the camel accessories). Apart from the shopping extravganza, other attractions are the camel and horse races. There is even a Camel judging competitions held at the fair. Other forms of entertainment include folk dances and folk music of Rajasthan, enthralling the crowd
PROGRAM- PUSHKAR FAIR 2008
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Date & Day |
Time |
Event |
Location |
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10/11/2008 |
10:00 AM |
Flag Hosting |
Fair Ground |
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11/11/2008 |
11:30 AM |
Football Match (Local V/S Tourists) |
Fair Ground |
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12/11/2008 |
08:00 AM 10:30 PM 10:30 PM Onwards |
Safed chitti Nagara & Shehnai Recital |
Cattle area |
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13/11/2008 |
09:00AM |
Spritual Walk Folk Dance & Music |
From Brahma Temple |