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Jaisalmer brings a mysterious beauty that I am sure you will not be able to miss when traveling to India. A “golden dream” as if straights out from a fairy tale with the cultural and architectural heritages left behind by thousands of years and the special lifestyle of the indigenous people here. If you love the stories in “One Thousand and One Nights” and want to see this fairy world in real life, then come to visit Jaisalmer city – the jewel in the heart of Thar – a vast and arid desert of Rajasthan state of India. So, is Jaisalmer worth visiting, what to do in Jaisalmer and how to plan a perfect budget trip to Jaisalmer, India for the first-time? Let’s check out our Jaisalmer blog (Jaisalmer travel blog) with the fullest Jaisalmer travel guide (Jaisalmer city guide, Jaisalmer tourist guide) from how to get there, best time to come, where to stay, best places to visit, what to eat and top things to do in Jaisalmer to find out the answer!

Tourists often choose to come to Jaisalmer by the attraction of camel riding tour into the Thar desert, or shopping for accessories, signature rugs, and handmade products made from sheep and goat skin at very cheap prices. Jaisalmer, a tourist city in the state of Rajasthan, is known as the Golden City because of its massive fort and most of the houses and buildings built of finely carved yellow-brown sandstone, presenting the sophisticated, elaborated art of stone carving by artisans in the state of Rajasthan. Jaisalmer was found in 1156, initially as a fortress, later developed into a small town.

In the past, Jaisalmer was an important part of the Silk Road. This place once played an important role as a busy trading hub, gathering many groups of merchants from Arabia, the West, India, and Persia to exchanging and trading goods. Currently, Jaisalmer people still living and trading as their ancestors before. Here, there are many shops selling brocades, souvenirs, handicrafts, and colorful tapestries. Therefore, when coming here, visitors feel like they are living in a fairyland in Arabian Nights of “One Thousand and One Nights”.

My strong impression when coming here is a pure yellow color covering this city of just over 5 square kilometers. From the early SpiceJet’s flight from New Delhi, looking down at the vast expanses of sand, mountains and desert I immediately thought of this small city maybe will be very desolate and inhospitable.

But when I set foot here, I’m completely wrong. That was only part of the feeling until landing at the airport and starting to getting into the tiny center of Jaisalmer, and especially went into Jaisalmer Fort, which is the only fort in India where people still allow live inside, while all other forts across the country are now just for sightseeing purposes. 

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