Author: tjiskavw

these folks were hanging out at the Pushkar market and I swear that one in the middle is transgender!

My guide told me he thought she might be headed home to feed cows after buying grass at the market...and that the head represents the right weight bearing axis of…

This guy was one of many vendors pushing carts laden with produce down the main street of the marketplace - always made me feel like I had walked on to…

Several guruwaras  sit along the market streets in Pushkar as contributors to the spiritual circus - although I'm not sure if this was a guruwara or wannabe!

The streets of Pushkar are lined with shops selling everything from tie-dyed clothes, the musical instrument didgeridoos, and usual trinkets for tourists. Despite the commercialization, this mystical town retains a…

This palace is a gorgeous piece of ancient architecture - a wonderland of enchanting courtyards, gardens, intricate archways covering exquisite hallways, flowing serpentine stairways, floral patterns adorning the walls, some…

Street performers pretend to hypnotize a snake into coming out of a basket to sway to music played by a pungi. In truth, snakes can't hear music, they're just rising…

Also called the palace of winds, this place looked like a honeycomb to me. It's five floor exterior is covered with 953 windows all containing intricate latticework. The intent of…

This step well was near the beautiful Savitri Temple which is in the background. A stepwell is essentially a pond with a corridor of steps that descend to the water…

this man had a story - wish I knew what it was. He sat at the entrance of a step well asking for money in exchange for a photograph. The…