Experiences labelled with 'rajastan'
Strictly speaking, this temple is called the Karni Mata Temple, but to call it by anything other than the “rat temple” would depart from essentially what it is—a temple infested with rats. My mother used to tell me not to feed stray cats as they will come back every day. Try feeding about five thousand rats each day and see what happens. Happy well-fed rats will breed faster than their unfed brethren, which in rat terms is extremely fast! My bus arrived at the Rat Temple on the northern ridge of Rajasthan at 4 a.m. from Pushkar. I alighted into a dark and desolate dust bowl along with the three travellers I met at the bus stop. There was no one. Not even a rat—yet! ...
