The Camel Fair is held next to the temple of Savitri in Pushkar Rajasthan. Once a year over 80000 camels cows sheep goats and horses some 200000 merchants farmers bandits thieves and a variety of human existence gather to find enlightenment and/or commerce. This is where Mary and John Newby from Arkaroola (N.S.Wales) went every year in the Twenties to select camel breeding stock for the Australian outback. Bringing along a stock of fine wines like Chateau Soutard and bottles of Vieille Reserve Armagnac 1883 to survive hardship they strapped campaign boxes onto their Bentleys and headed to the desert for a week or so to live in tents.
