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Jaisalmer Slideshow
Jaisalmer
Travel Blogs from Jaisalmer, India
Jaisalmer--The Golden City
... ! I'm writing this from Jaisalmer, the Golden City. It is also the final city before the India/Pakistan border (which is supposedly 40 km away). Jaisalmer is beautiful. The architecture, winding streets and crumbling buildings make it feel as though ...
Heilige Scheiße (Holy shit) - Castles and Camels
... close to the Pakistan border and through tribal areas before seeing a wind turbine farm as far as the eye could see. Jaisalmer has that desert frontier feel about it and we soon checked into a cheap but clean hotel with a very friendly host named ...
Day 6: Jaisalmer and beyond
... before all these we wanted to buy some souveniers of the place, so we visited a shop in the market area of Jaisalmer. These shops have collection of camel leather materials, artifacts made up of camel bones, yellow sandstone utensils amongst many other ...
Jaisalmer-y Poppins
... 24 hour trip pass very quickly. After a very quick stop off in Ahmaddabad i took a twelve hour night bus to Jaisalmer, near the Pakistan border, and arrived their at 6.30am listening to Elvis on my ipod chuckling his way through a live ...
Drab Reports From Between the Forts
... . We (including Mr. Singh) ate at a great rooftop restaurant tonight called 'Trio' which did not disappoint. It overlooked the Jaisalmer Fort and the food was quite enjoyable overall. It was the first time in three days where I dared to have Indian ...
Camel Rides and Sand Dune Slides
... headed out to begin the greatest night of the trip so far. We had a date with the desert. Driving an hour south of Jaisalmer we found ourselves on a small ranch in the majestic sprawl of the Thar Desert. I was reminded of my eighteen year-old self ...
The Thar Desert
I took a trip on a two day camel safari into the Thar desert which was an amazing experience. The camel trek took us through a number of small remote villages that barely scratch a living from the brief period after the monsoons that allow simple ...
"True"-the restaurant and the Rat
... and watched the hordes of tourists running for the escape exit-but sadly decided against it.-oh what a coward I am. My last night in Jaisalmer and it was a good one as far as I can remember-thats for tomorrow with many pics of Jodphur & ...
You are entering the Aztec Zone
... what we could see he definitely had green fingers, although perhaps more for the local bhang (legal in parts of Jaisalmer) than for conventional crops. Now to the camel-riding itself... In Mongolia we rode Bactrian camels for an hour or ...
Pushkar Camel fair and Jaisalmer
... desert mandolin man to serrenade us). Such a special treat and so unexpected. The sleeper train from here to the Gold city of Jaisalmer was a great deal better as we managed to book on a higher class of carriage which was also air condition-what a ...
Nouvel An dans le desert autour du feu
Nous passons la Saint Sylvestre avec les chameaux dans le desert pres de Jaisalmer. Repas en amoureux autour du feu de camp... Jaislamer est la Cite Doree, une forteresse qui ressemble a un chateau de sable geant poussant dans le desert au milieu ...
Jeselmer (Desert city)
... and with this I walk off. I have a little toolbox of getting rid of people like this, if they say " You no like Indian people/India" as they try to grapple conversation out of me " No, I really don't" is my very effective reply. Anyway, so we took a ...
Camels Sandcastles
... floor. Unfortunately, my eyes never adjusted to the light and it was a rather Ray Charles style carsy situation. Finally we arrived in Jaisalmer and were whisked to our hotel, good pillows and fluffy duvets, satellite TV too! The next day and a half were ...
Sand castles and Camels....
... bars were no longer satisfying) and so dirty. It was great!! Okay well great after we had a warm shower! The journey to Jaisalmer was a long one, but rewards of true travel are in the journey on route to the destination-not just arriving at a ...
Visiting the worlds biggest sandcastle
... the top with rooms full of coloured glass, mirrors and paintings covered with gold leaf. On both evenings we spent in Jaisalmer we encountered wedding celebrations that snaked through the town in a riot of colour and music. The groom dressed as a ...
Only fotos!
Christmas in the desert
... word.. and we couldn't come up with anything that quite captured it so i will tell you all about it in detail!!.. We left Jaisalmer in the afternoon by jeep and were driven into the desert where there were some camels waiting for us. There were six of ...
Paboo and Simon - the fastest camels in the west
We arrived in Jaisalmer a couple of days ago on our second overnight sleeper train (falsely named as yet again we didn't get a wink of sleep). Having spent the first day sleeping we explored the fort and town in the evening and had some fantastic food ...
THE RIP OFF OF THE TRIP THUS FAR :-(
... the tourist dollars). I went to bed that night and shed a few quiet tears. Mainly because up till that point I had LOVED my experience of India and did my best to boost their economy as often and as fairly as I could. It left a bad taste in my mouth ...
Camel safari
From Jodhpur we went by bus to a small place called Jaisalmer. This small city is close to the desert and the Pakistan border. We had already booked a hotel, so one guy was picking us up from the bus- station. When we arrived to the hotel, he served us ...
More Delhi and Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
... day. He told me that the trains will hit a cow or camel approximately every other day. Wow, would that be a sight! Jaisalmer - The Fort: I'm writing this from the hotel's "office computer for hire". I'm on the top floor patio of ...
Sand Dunes at Sunset
We went on to Jaisalmer which is known as the 'Golden City' since the buildings are made out of sandstone. We visited the Fort (Sonar Killa) where there are still 4000 people living inside. The people that live inside have their homes passed down to them, ...
Camels and Peeping Toms
... the whole peeping tom fiasco the four of us (Gary, Elle, Random and I) went shopping around for the best camel tour. Jaisalmer is in/next to the Thar Desert which separates Pakistan and India. The border is quite edgy, but you can find miles ...
The do's and don'ts of Jaisalmer
Having endured the twenty hour journey by train from Delhi to Jaisalmer (pronounced Jesselmere, and no other way, as this will mean you get sent to the wrong platform at Delhi station, and that, in your weakened state, lugging around 30 k's of luggage ...
Holy Cow! (Pun Intended)
... . I think I have found my new main staple to be yogurt. We sat on top of the building with a beautiful view of Jaisalmer Fort in the moonlight. Romantic is really the best word to describe it. There were young boys playing music, and one was ...
Strong Cake - It has to be.
... to say the least but this is all part of the act. Haggling is fun and it’s all done in good spirit, especially in India I have found. Other places it can be a bit harder but Yogi’s smile never left his face. “Plus the nice shirt for you ...