It is a royal, surrounded with strong walls city - a real deserted “country”. But it is no needed at once to draw in imagination the even forms of dunes, spread over the horizon and soft sand, studded with flowerings cactuses. Here is the quite another desert – even, hard and stony, only a prickly blackthorn places peep out of the lifeless stones.
An ancient city Bikaner is situated in the middle of this sterile desert.
Bikaner is a small on the Indian concepts city. He counts only 500 thousands of habitants. Bikaner is located in the north Rajasthan. He lies on the verge of the enormous Tar desert, parted on two parts from the India-Pakistan border.
A city stands on an ancient caravan way, connecting Central Asia and North India, with a branch on the marine ports of Gujarat. |