Pushker

Pushker is about 140 km from Jaipur, but given the poor road conditions, it takes about 3 hours to get there by car. Pushker is a very small town and it's claim to fame is having the only Brama Temple in the world. Brama is the god of creation, Vishnu is the god of balance and Shiva is the god of destruction. Pushker has a special meaining for my family (and extended relatives), as the guru they follow actually delivered a lecture under one of the banyan trees in 1974 in this town and as a result a temple was resurected there. So all of our family members were happy that we had a chance to pay our respects at that particular site/temple. Our guru traveled to 84 cities in India to deliver lectures. So our family/relatives try to visit as many of these sites as they can and often times plan their trips around one of these sites. Although, ours happened to be by chance, as our trip to Pushker was a spontaneous decision. Pushker has a similar tourist underground scene as Goa, consumption of marijuana/bang is quite popular in this otherwise sleepy town.