The small enchanting town of Pushkar is situated 11 km to the northwest of Ajmer in Rajasthan. It is surrounded on three sides by the majestic Aravalli hills, and on the fourth by the sand dunes. A serpentine road, Nag Pahad (Snake Mountain) forms a natural barrier between Ajmer and Pushkar. Come Diwali and this otherwise sleepy, somnolent town springs to life.
It is believed that a dip in the Pushkar Lake absolves the pilgrims of all sins. Many also believe that no pilgrimage to Char Dham {the four principal pilgrim centres namely, Badrinath (Uttarakhand), Jagannath (Orissa), Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu) and Dwaraka (Gujarat)} is complete without a dip in the holy waters of this lake. So, millions of pilgrims flock Kartika Poornima to Pushkar to observe the ritual and bathe on the occasion of, or on any of the four days preceding it. Then the pilgrims visit the Brahma temple. This event also coincides perfectly with the annual Pushkar....
