50,000 camels, traders from Sindh and Marwar, balloon races at dawn — five nights every November where the desert speaks Rajasthani only.
For a week around Kartik Purnima, thousands of camels and their traders camp on the dunes outside town while pilgrims bathe in the lake below the Brahma temple. Two entirely different events sharing one calendar.
The livestock trading happens at the front of the week and thins as the fair turns into more of a spectacle, so arrive early if that is what you came for. Dawn on the dunes is the reason to be there at all.
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A luxury bivouac on the dunes, hot bucket-bath at sunset.
