Ajmer - an unexpected treat!

We've just spent a lovely two days in the little town of Ajmer. We've been staying in the wonderful Haveli Heritage Inn, and the owners have been incredibly helpful and full of great information about where to go. Today, we started off in Nareli temples, a massive Jain temple set high up a mountain. We didn't get to go right to the top of these temples as there was construction work going on,and anyway I don't think the tuk-tuk would have made it!

When we went in to the temple complex, we were immediately beseiged by Jains thrusting their children towards us for pictures (this is when you realise you're not in a Lonely Planet recommended place!) As we walked on, the crowd around us grew and grew until we arrived at the inner temple, which had a Buddha in. You can see by the picture below what happened next!

Anyway, after shaking a million hands, we left, and after this we saw some of the sights in town - the Anasagar lake, The Jain Red temple, and then we headed to Dargah, a Muslim sight of pilgrimage. Unfortunately, we weren't able to take our cameras in there, but it was an amazing and incredibly different experience. We were led around by a priest man, who showed us where and when to donate money, buy gifts for family (apologies to my family, I didn't buy you any flowers to leave at the shrine!), get blessed, and also the priest prayed for me, which was nice! He then asked me to kiss the wall at which he prayed, which I pretended to, then eat a flower bud, which I politely refused. As if my stomach needs that to contend with as well! I should've asked him to pray for my stomach, thinking about it!

So, all in all, we've had a great time here, it's definitely worth spending a couple of days in Ajmer. We're off to Pushkar tomorrow to see how that compares!