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Jaisalmer Holidays India |
If you want to visit the true Western India, Holidays in Jaisalmer could be the best way to do it. Holidays in Jaisalmer can be really enjoyable. If you are interested in spending some time while on holidays in India, Jaisalmer holidays could be the best way to go ahead.
In the most western corner of state Rajasthan, on 100 km distance from the Pakistan border, is located Jaisalmer - the city-fortress. It is named in honour of the founder Rawal Jaisal in 1156. |
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Its yellow sandy fortifications tower above droughty Thar Desert like a bewitching mirage which can seem to see as a long-awaited oasis to the travellers exhausted by a heat. There are many reasons which make holidays in Jaisalmer special.
You will find lots of travel attractions while enjoying your Jaisalmer holidays. Jaisalmer is a small but very interesting city. Enjoy your holidays in Jaisalmer by visiting this small desert town.
Unlike any other city, this fortress of desert is one of the most exotic and unusual cities of the state Rajasthan. Jaisalmer is a city-phantom. In the past it was extremely rich, because it stood on the well-known Great silk way, surrounded by fortifications with 99-th bastions, which were both - a beacon and a shelter for caravans of that time. |
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| Probably, this place could be compared to the American Texas, but instead of cowboys on horses here the camel caravans overcome the deserts.
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Because of the remoteness from the basic tourist routes, many travellers never come in this distance though the city remains the one of the most bewitching corners of India.
Sights Jaisalmer are constant reminder on the gold past of the city. There are many stories about the valour and unsurpassed bravery of its inhabitants.
They also remind of a former greatness of the magnificent fort, architectural monuments, a plenty of stone and wooden houses and, certainly, noted camel safaris. The Festival of desert is spent here on every February. Practically all constructions of this city, from the fort up to apartment houses and temples, are made of soft yellow sandstone.
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Inside of the fort are located numerous temples constructed between XII and XV centuries from the same sandstone, with yellow and white marble sanctuaries. Also inside of the fort it is possible to see a palace of the Maharaja, interiors of those times, a marble throne of the monarch, whence it addressed to the armies, negotiated with merchants and disclosed the orders. |
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