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Folk dance of Rajasthan at Pushkar Camel Fair in the desert town of Rajasthan. Rajasthani man performs an improvised version of kalbelia dance with an earthen pot on his head. The sprawling annual festivities of the 100-year-old Pushkar fair through its dramatic collage of diversified pictures, mirrors the vibrancy of the gracious state of Rajasthan. Held each November at the time of the full moon, the Pushkar Camel Fair or Pushkar Cattle Fair is one of Indias most highly-rated travel experiences - a spectacle on an epic scale that attracts more than 50,000 camels, horses and cattle, 8,00,000 tourists and 60,000 expats from across the world, to the tiny desert town of Pushkar, on the edge of the Thar Desert. Source: pushkarcamelsafari This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage arc