2020 Pushkar Fair Dates & event details in Rajasthan

Rajasthan host an amazing even called Pushkar Fair every year in the month of October or November. This year fair will be held on Sun, 22 Nov, 2020 – Mon, 30 Nov, 2020. This fair is about the ancient and traditional cattle fair trade and camel trade is the most noted one. The major reason for crowd to come is to visit on Kartik Ekadashi or Kartik Purnima which happens on full moon day of the month.

The dates of the fair is set based on hindu calendar located near Ajmer a small town of Pushkar in Rajasthan. You can reach easily this place by nearest airport Kishangarh newly built around 45 minutes distance approx. or Jaipur Airport which is 200 km away takes 4 hours to reach. The nearest railway station is Ajmer.

In the Pushkar Mela it becomes a religious place for worship as well for locals. People take holy dip in the sacred Pushkar lake. In this period of time you can experience various activity like camel safari, camel races, bridal competition & lot more cattle related activities as well. Pushkar is a important part of Rajasthan tourism and it has experiential stays to offer around heritage hotels.

As per hindu mythology and belief one must take a dip in the pushkar lake to get purified at least once in life time to cleanse spiritually.