Festival Tours in Rajasthan
  
The city of Bikaner is an exercise in architecture.
If ever beauty has bloomed in a desert, it has been at Bikaner.
Bikaner rises from the desert like a mirage, a complex town
of sandstone colored turrets, cupolas, arched windows, balconies
and stone screen work in a delicate lattice style. Just beyond
the town lie sand dunes, vast endless stretches of an arid desert,
made to bloom wherever there is water.
One gapes in awe at the annual Camel Festival which is held
every year in the month of January. The festival is organized
by the Department of Tourism, Government of Rajasthan and attracts
thousands of tourists who take part in the festival in a spirit
of joi-de-vivre.
Although it is an exclusive Camel Festival, traditional Rajasthani
folk dance and music add to the charm of this enchanting festival
including of course the enthralling Fire Dance.
The festival provides tourists with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to see some of the most elegant camels who charm them by their
graceful strides and swaying gently on the yielding sands, literally
duplicating the motion of a sea liner.
The festival is held in open sandy land and needless to say,
there is no dearth of that in Bikaner. The festival starts in
the right earnest with an elegant Camel Parade wherein the camels
are decorated in all their finery. There are a variety of contests
like the best-dressed camel, the camel with the best haircut
to name just a few. One can also experience the fine art of
camel milking. One of the unique feature of the Camel Festival
is that guests are served with authentic desert sweets made
out of the purest of camel milk.
The evenings are a riot of colors and visitors are entertained
by distinguished folk musicians and dancers of Bikaner. The
festival culminates with a spectacular fire work display which
lights up the city of Bikaner.
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