Jaisalmer is one of the most visited cities in Rajasthan for the fantastic experiences in the desert, the vibrant market of Manak Chowk, along with the well-carved and engraved Havelis on the walls of the town, which will be well worth looking at and considering.
The most crucial thing that helps Jaisalmer to maintain its cultural equipments is the numerous tourists visiting this destination throughout the years. But, it is not enough. Despite the many tourists visiting the Fort, Jaisalmer has been getting more than it can handle, which is also helping to hamper the Fort year after year.
1. Visit the Jaisalmer Fort
Both structures of the city and Fort have the same color, a tone of gold sand as if they have been camouflage in the same shades of the desert. Constructed in the XII century, the Jaisalmer Fort includes a rich history revealed not only in the art items you will find there but the holes in the walls from the previous struggles.
The history of this city intertwines with the story of the Fort. The color of the Fort and its place near the Thar Desert has a particularity. As said earlier, its yellow color gets brighter during the day and using a gold-tone in the evening, almost disappearing in the sand of the desert. Situated in a really remote city on the highest stage and with its own towers on top, providing a clear and unobstructed view for many miles around, which has been an important advantage in all the previous struggles.
In the present day, is an amazing place to enjoy the sunrise or sunset, with an endless view over the Thar Desert.
2. A night at the Thar Desert with the Sahara Travels
The Thar Desert It’s a unique experience that you ought to try once in your lifetime. There are numerous offers in the city and too many touts. We, in Happy mind Travels, urge the Sahara Travels. This recommendation stems from the experience we had in 2010, once we spend the night at the Desert, having as a tour guide the late Mr. Desert (Mr. Laxminarayan Bissa). More than a tour guide, LN Bissa was a Bollywood advertisement commercial celebrity, participating in ads like the Coca-Cola brand and an ambassador of Marlboro cigarettes in Jaisalmer.
Before, he spent over 300 days taking tourists to the desert, always with exceptional testimonials. Sahara Travels are very professional and will provide a secure and adventurous encounter with camel rides and a comfortable night under the starry desert sky. It will cost you approximately 1500 Rupees for one night at the Desert, including a dinner in the middle of the dunes, and a blanket for the cold nights of the desert. Camel resting in the Thar Desert at Jaisalmer If you have the opportunity to go between January and February, you are able to take advantage of this fantastic Desert Festival, a festival full of color, typical of this area of Rajasthan, with camel races, folk music, along with the Mr. Desert contest. A beauty pageant, where men dress in traditional desert outfits and show off their mustache, closely treated through the years.
3. Sunset at the Gadisar Lake in Jaisalmer
Gandisar Lake was constructed in the 14th century by the first Jaisalmer ruler, Raja Rawal Jaisal, as the principal water supply in the arid city of Jaisalmer. It is a beautiful lake with an artistic golden sandstone archway on the entrance and surrounded by Temples, Shrines, Ghats, and carved Chatteris.
Its charm is in the importance it had to the city, by being the only supply of water in the isolated Jaisalmer. In there you may see many different migratory birds, originated from Bharatpur, and many catfish are waiting for one to give them some food. Try this, and you’ll see them coming to the surface, using their mouth wide open, waiting for meals.
Catfish at Gadisar Lake
Gadisar Lake is an artificial lake in Jaisalmer, just a few minutes from the train station, surrounded by shrines and temples and filled with catfish. To get a fantastic adventure, go to Gadisar Lake, rent a boat, head to the middle of the lake, and spend a relaxing moment watching the shore of Jaisalmer. Before entering the lake, before the bow, then you may see Hari Ram Bhopa. A folk musician and also a storyteller. Is always there in the entrance, playing with his Ravanhatta, a conventional Indian tool, made by himself.
4. Longewala war memorial
The 38 km drive from Tanot into Longewala through the desert is a great one. The best part is when you reach Longewala, starting with milestone 638 to the longewala war memorial to the tanks that are captured to the audiovisual film are a must-see. This gave me goose pimples seeing the way the jawans from the Indian Army live in very harsh and inhospitable states to make our lives safe.
5.Visit the royal cemetery of Bada Bagh
In the 16th century AD, Gait Singh II, a descendant of the Maharawal Jaisal Singh, commissioned a dam to bring water into this region, creating a green space in the center of the desert.
Bada Bagh or Bara Baag is, in essence, a graveyard in which the early rulers of Jaisalmer, together with Cenotaphs or Chhatris (tombstones constructed to mark the place where the royal household members were cremated), endure for every ruler. The first was built by Maharawal Jail Singh II in 1528 AD and subsequently told his son his Chattri ought to be made in Bada Bagh, thus initiating the Chatteris tradition in Bara Bagh.
Later this tradition was considered bad luck, so they stop doing this type of shrines. Jaisalmer is well known chiefly for the desert adventures or the Fort. Most of the vacationers moving are not even aware of this location like the Bada Bagh. So it is normal that you won’t find many tourists there, or perhaps sailors, making this place a particular one to visit in Jaisalmer. Some tourists who moved to Bada Bagh whined that the taxi driver asks them to get cash to take photographs there, and that is mad. So, it’s better that you ask in your guesthouse for a rickshaw, and ask for all kinds of information, such as this one. You can take pictures, and you don’t even need to pay anything