Pushkar Camel Fair

Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting 300,000 people and up to 20,000 camels, cattle and horses.

This year, the camel festival is running from 6 to 17 of November 2013 in the nice small city of Pushkar, Rajasthan. You can also go there the week before the event, many sellers come earlier to avoid the crowd. For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan.

Some competitions are organized there such as the “matka phod“, “longest moustache”, and “bridal competition” which are the main draws for this fair which attracts thousands of tourists

17 November is the last day of the Pushkar Fair Official Programme and is the day of the Kartik Purnima religious festival, when many thousands of devotees visit the temples and circumambulate the holy lake.