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Bikaner India Travel
Bikaner is in north west India and you can get there by bus. The buses are busy and very crowded and getting tickets can be a taxing ordeal just to find
out how to buy the ticket. The buses are old and are usually very full with villagers, chickens, bags of rice, and goats. You will always meet someone to talk to, especially middle class people who nearly always speak english. The kanimata temple in bikaner is full of rats, the reincarnated souls of the ancestors of kanimata. The temple lets the rats run around and you can feed them. The rats are holy and revered and if you step on one, you have to replace them with silver. The ancestors of kanimata have been reborn as rats. They have been here for more than five hundred years. The people offer puja and gifts to the temple.
There is a religious festival in the villages and they make special dough for capattis and dance and smoke tobacco. The chapattis are rolled out, the watermelons are sliced up and the ladies might even give you a bracelet. The villager do fire walking and they even eat fire. Fire gives light and light means knowledge. It is a means and expression of the yoga that they practice.
Bikaner in Rajasthan, India was founded in 1488 by Rao Bikaji. The lovely sculpted temples of red and yellow sandstone are the main feature of Bikaner, as well as the awesome palaces. To get to Bikaner you will have to catch a bus. The nearest Train service is at Jodhpur and the nearest airporst is at Jaipur or Jodhpur. Accommodation is Bikaner is well represented and you can stay at a royal residence that has been converted into a hotel. Some of them are the Laggharh Palace, Bhanwar Niwas, and Basant Vihar Palace. Imagine sleeping in a Maharaja's bed!
The Junagarh Fort was built in the sixteenth century and has 37 bastions and a moat. Its entrances are decorated with amazing stone carvings. The Lalgarh Palace is three kilometers north of Bikaner City has overhanging balconies and delicate latticework.
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