Pushkar Camel Fair Ground
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Each year during the camel fair, tens of thousands of camels are traded, raced and judged in beauty contests here. Outside the festival, you can ride camels into the nearby dunes to watch the sunset.
The Pushkar Camel Fair is one of the world's largest camel trading fairs. It takes place for about a week around the full moon of Kartika, usually in November. Tens of thousands of camels, horses and cattle gather on the fairground and the surrounding sand, with camel races, camel beauty contests, moustache competitions, folk song and dance performances and hot-air balloons. The best time to visit is the peak livestock trading days a few days before the festival. At other times you can ride a camel, or take a camel cart, into the sand dunes west of town to watch the sunset, from about INR 500.
Opening hours
Open all day during festivals
Nearby sights
- Brahma Temple
- Brahma Ghat
- Gau Ghat (Gandhi Ghat)
- Pushkar Sadar Bazaar
- Old Rangji Temple
- Pushkar Lake
- Pap Mochani Temple
- Varaha Ghat & Varaha Temple