Feast India S1E1: Village Wedding, Jaisalmer, Pushkar

Overview

Ghanerao is a small town in central Rajasthan, which bursts into life for a classic Hindu wedding. A family of cooks come to town and set up a makeshift kitchen to cater for 500 guests, while everyone waits for the moon. Jaisalmer is a magical sand castle fortress, on the frontier of the Pakistani border, were a family of sweet-makers have been pounding out local delicacies for ten generations, and a camel ride away, the Desert of the Thar makes the perfect stage for a twilight concert of Rajasthani music. The mystical holy city of Pushkar, home of the famous annual Camel Fair, with 50,000 camels taking part in a beauty pageant, a carnival with giant Ferris wheels and male ‘Go Go' girls, and a lake where you can wash away the sins of a lifetime.