Hotels in Jaisalmer - Prices and Reviews

India Exchange rate: $1US = 37.45 rupees I arrived in Mumbai at 8pm on December 30th, and took a taxi to my hotel - The Taj President. I decided that I would splurge and stay in a nice place for my first two nights to ease myself back in to traveling, and to ease myself back in to India. The hotel was really nice, and my room overlooked the Arab...

Today we had our tour of Jaisalmer. We first headed to Gadhi Sagar tank - a man made lake built in 1367 which used to be the sole water supply for the city. There are many sandstone ghats and temples which surround the tiny lake. There is a gateway - Tilon-ki-Pol which was commissioned in 1909 by a rich prostitue/courtesan named Tilon. While it ...

Jaisalmer, aussi appellee la ville jaune, est situee au milieu du grand desert du Thar, pres de la frontiere indo-pakistanaise. Meme en 2007, on se sent comme les nomades du desert en arrivant dans cette ville qui reliait autrefois la Perse et l Inde, permettant ainsi le commerce. A notre avis, l architecture est magnifique, l une des plus belle...

On the last day of 2006, we started our first day of camel trekking. A large group of camel trekkers gathered in front of the travel agency in the morning, waiting to be sent into the great Thar desert by jeeps. This scene deepened our doubts: every agency (including this one) swore that their trail would be an off-beaten one, somewhere 40km fro...

After the madness at the bus stand, we got to the Shahi Palace Hotel, a modern building built of standstone in the traditional haveli style and sits in the shadow of the foreboding Jaisalmer fort. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Comfy, clean, wit...

On our trek Jaisalmer is the furthest west we will head in India. The hill top fort rose like a ship on the horizon as the train chugged across the desert from Jodhpur. 1000 people still live within the walls of the fort which shows intricate sandstone carvings and ornate Havelis (merchant houses). A sedate town to meander around we watched the ...

For the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, our hotel put up a free buffet dinner on the balcony rooftop restaurant which faced the sandstone fort and had the desert behind it. All night and through to the early morning there were fireworks exploding in the air from all directions as well as the sound of kids playing with bangers, roman candles an...

After eight hours rattling around in the sleeper bus we arrived in Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer is described as a desert town 'par excellence', it is certainly very picturesque with all the houses and havelis built from sandstone. It is also very touristy and although I got sucked into buying more souvenoirs than I should have done, it was nice to enjoy...