The Jaisalmer Fort is unique, in that it has an entire city within the fort premises.....it is in fact said to be one of the largest fully preserved fortified cities in the world.
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This pic is courtesy Google:
Jaisalmer is not called the golden city for nothing. It's not just the fort, every single building there is this golden yellow. It's the local stone. No paint used at all.
Unfortunately, we couldn't spend as much time as we wanted to in Jaisalmer as we had to reach the desert before sunset. We did the Patwon ki Haveli, and some time within the fort, but really not enough. We thought we'd come back the next day, but that didn't happen
Setting off for the desert
It's so dry that natural grazing isn't possible, lorry's come and drop off feed for the cows in specific spaces like this
A donkey is such a rare sight now, that I had to take a picture (a childhood attachment I guess:)
It starts to get so dry that even the thorny trees get further apart...and you start to see sand, the soft desert sand, and my excitement was starting to build as I'd never seen desert before
And then even the occasional thorny trees disappear
And like an oasis, we reach 'Desert Spring', our desert abode
A cup of tea before heading into the desert. The camp itself is set up a little before the sand dunes due to the hostility of desert conditions.
Next was to camel ride to the sand dunes
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