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Travel Blogs from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan,, India
Sand in places you wouldn't dream of!
This is a top pick! i am on the worlds slowest computer and am getting angry - cant think why the palmist described me as firey and quicktempered! india is making me more patient though - everything is slow if it arrives at all. We are in Jaislamer - it really is ...
"Bhanged" up by a Camel: Desert Safari
This is a top pick! ... . As the pain in my ass built and built, it was clear - it was time for my secret weapon. Jaisalmer is one of a handful of cities in India where the buying and ingestion of bhang is COMPLETELY LEGAL. There is a government shop in Jaisalmer called the ...
Jaisalmer the desert city in the West
This is a top pick! ... , motorbikes, cows...oh and a new one here: camels! Got on the road early this am and drove through the desert to Jaisalmer which is spectactular. Took a detour to the 'rat temple' outside of town. It was a Hindu Temple clad in marble with hundreds ...
Forts, Deserts, Camels, Havelis
This is a top pick! ... desert Jaisalmer, 80 km from the Pakistani border, sits on the edge of the Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan. In its hey day, Jaisalmer prospered on the camel caravans coming from Central Asia. Many rich merchants built beautiful yellow sandstone havelis ...
Goodbye Emily!
This is a top pick! ... , people still live in it. Nearly 25% of the population actually. It is a living museum. LP describes Jaisalmer as a giant sandcastle with a town attached, which isn't far from the truth. I liked Jaisalmer because it was a small ...
Jaisalmer and the Thar Desert
This is a top pick! ... of the town’s Havelis (literal meaning ‘enclosed spaces’ but used to describe rich merchants houses). Jaisalmer has some incredibly fine sculpted sandstone buildings built by successful merchants in the 19th and 20th centuries, partly ...
Holy COW!
This is a top pick! ... (Peter's favorite), chicken naan, vegetable naan, you name it, it's available. So the things that I thought I knew about India before I arrived should be thrown out the window. I was very timid about visiting India, but wanted to test myself. ...
Camel Safari in Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! (Nicole) Our first camel safari! And it was extremely hot! The camels are tall, soft-spoken, and kind. We rode on them for a few hours, trotting along the Thar desert, bruising my butt and thighs. The sand dunes looked liked gentle rolling hills in hues ...
Golden Sands
This is a top pick! ... had spent enough time in Jodhpur, so we checked out of our hotel and went to the bus station, and grabbed a bus to Jaisalmer. Supposedly, the last town before the desert which heads out towards Pakistan. We knew there were camel treks fom here, which ...
Jaisalmer - The Sand Castle City.
This is a top pick! ... a little better with our colds (and the quieter atmosphere with less hassle) and felt ready to move on to Udaipur our next destination 12 hours away by bus. Footnote: Jaisalmer Fort is featured in the book Unforgettable Places to See before you ...
World Heritage Day Bonanza
This is a top pick! ... to do)! The Palace was pretty disapointing and the fort didn't seem worth the hike out to it after the fantastic forts in Jaisalmer and Jodphur so we decided to move on the following day. Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur We decided to stop on the way ...
The giant sandcastle
This is a top pick! ... and started pointing at things. We got maybe 12 different sweets for about $2. We tried Internet but all the connections in Jaisalmer apparently run really really slowly (like they don't work) in the evening time. So we gave up. We ...
On Our Way to Bikaner
This is a top pick! ... we had our massages and had our henna tattoos completed. While we were getting our massages, we learned about how this caste in India must provide a dowry for their daughters to marry. The better the dowry, the better the husband. If they can't afford a ...
Campfire camel-raderie
This is a top pick! ... . Following this we got to our hotel (a 550 year old building set within the old fort) with uncharacteristic ease. Jaisalmer is a truly beautiful city, built from honey coloured sandstone, and quickly established itself as our favourite place in India so ...
Camel Safari
This is a top pick! ... the fort walls. Around late afternoon as I watched the hand carved sandstone turn a beautiful amber, I could understand why they call Jaisalmer the “golden city.” But what actually drew me to take this side trip to Jaisalmer was a chance to ...
Desert Castle
This is a top pick! (Written by Dave with Ben on the pictures) Ahhhh Jaisalmer...city in the desert....its not actually in the desert at all... it's more sand swept plains leading up to the great Thar desert but basically it amounts to the same thing. Arriving here by ...
The Golden City
This is a top pick! ... in a minaret by the lake singing and clapping and we felt the calmest and most relaxed we have felt since arriving in India. Rajasthan has certainly been more enjoyable and traditional than elsewhere and we are finding ourselves having a really good ...
No more spices, please...
This is a top pick! ... couldn't understand how they would prefer blander-tasting food over chicken tikka, spinach paneer, biryani, and the other great dishes of India. But now, already just a few days into our trip, we're spiced-out! Eating Indian food three times a day has ...
Touring Jaisalmer
This is a top pick! Today we had a tour guide show us around Jaisalmer. We saw some beautiful havelis and carved out of gold Jaisalmer stone. They were wonderful. We also went through the fort that is actually occupiced by people. It had really narrow streets with lots of ...
Camel Safari
This is a top pick! 
Woof! indeed french-canadian raikie master ...
This is a top pick! ... here so I don't bother. Maybe when i get some where that's fast I can put some of my own pictures up - but no one in india seems able to process APS films. Great. Anyway, the hotel I am in is tiiiiny. there are 4 rooms and it's full with some ...
Have bailed out of pushkar got a bit tired ...
This is a top pick! ... the other four henchmen. I suppose there are wee diddies in every town on the planet. So took the night bus from Pushkar to Jaisalmer last night. Usual farce, at bus stop for 9:30, didn't leave Dodge til midnight you know the routine. Goats and all ...
Golden City & Safari & Lies
... on drums and dancing in front of the houses. I watched them from the rooftop of our hotel. Sightseeing: Jaisalmer is also known as the golden city of Rajasthan. Many sandstone buildings and a big sandstone fort is dominating the not too big city. We had ...
And the award for the best sandcastle goes to...
... , free Internet... the list goes on) it was the loveliest hotel we've stayed in since the start of our trip. Unbelievably for Jaisalmer the friendly owner did not even try to book us onto a camel safari - but recommended we look on trip adviser/ the ...
Jaiselmer Diwali with a Bang!!
... much about Jainism, but Raj had lived in the fort and he was pretty knowledgeable and so he gave me some of the background. Jaisalmer has this amazing sandstone fort that towers above the local town. It really is a beautiful site, with 5,000 people still ...
Holi festival dans la ville jaune
Apres une nouvelle nuit de transport je suis arrive a Jaisalmer, la ville jaune. Toujours au Rajasthan, c'est une ville situee au bord du desert du Thar qui s'etend jusqu'au Pakistan a quelques centaines de km de la. C'est une ville que j'ai vraiment aime ...
Camela Safari! Rice and Chapati!
... too!) and did not disappoint. Before heading off to the desert to meet our camels, we three spent a day hanging out in Jaisalmer town, walking the long way up to the fort, and exploring the bazaars inside (which were massively over-priced due to ...
The Great Thar Desert.
... our room door so that we can’t run away. We were led outside to our air conditioned jeep for our safari. Naturally in India this just meant it had no doors, or windows, or anything but seats really and we set off with Rasmus and Julia from Denmark ...
Jaisalmer - The Golden City
... as well. Then we were off on the road again. We stopped for lunch on the way but I didn't really eat. India finally got to my stomach :( Arrived in Jaisalmer at about 2pm and all I can say is that the desert is HOT this time of year. I could see the ...
Jaisalmer - The Other Windy City
... Hotel, after all! It is a project set-up by an Austrian ex-pat, as a means of maintaining the musical heritage of Rajasthan, which suffered with the decline of the Maharaja's Court, and is home to a colony of 100 musicians and their families. From ...