Pushkar, India - November 20th, 2006

The town clusters around a lake, Pushkar lake, with a maze of streets spreading out from the main street. Small, tourist friendly, so it's easy to get around. There are hundreds of temples but few are ancient, since they were desecreted by Aurangzab and rebuilt afterwards.

Brahma temple is the most famous. Brahma wanted to perform a self-mortification at the lake, but his wife Savitri didn't attend, so he married another woman right away. Savitri annoyed, bowed that Brahma would not be worshipped anywhere else. The goose is the symbol of Brahma.

I arrived on the evening, and the guesthouse I stayed had a nice rooftop restaurant with nice views of surroundings.