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Jaisalmer Is A City of Forts, Lakes And Ancient Monuments

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Rajasthan is a wonderful land for tourists where Jaisalmer is an ancient town in Rajasthan with its famous Fort, which shines with its skillful construction, having with it a huge living area, with narrow lanes to walk through and beautiful Havelies and group of Jain temples built from 12th to 15th Centuries, which are all covered in Rajasthan tour packages.

The Jaisalmer tourism would cover visits to the following spots:

  • Golden yellow sandstone Jaisalmer Fort, 800 years old located at the top of Trikuta Hill, defended by 99 turrets, which lies in the Old city
  • Patwan Ki Haveli, which is the largest and most elaborate Haveli in Jaisalmer, with five storeys extensively carved and divided into six apartments, some of them housing handicraft shops for visitors to make their collections.
  • Nathmal Ji Ki Haveli, built in the 19th century, with such a symmetrical shapes, although two brothers had independently constructed the Haveli from two opposite ends
  • Salim Singh Ki Haveli, which was built before 300 years and having a beautifully arched roof with superb carved brackets resembling Peacocks.
  • Tazia tower, the delicate pagoda like structure in Badal Mahal, which means Cloud Palace, rising with its five tiered architecture having balcony delicately carved in each level, which has historical significance of the Shape of Tazia designed by a Muslim craftsman.
  • Desert National Park providing good eco system in the midst of Thar Desert, with craggy rocks, payments and compact salt lake bottoms, housing black buck, chinkara, wolf , Indian fox, hare, desert cat and similar animals.
  • Akal Wood Fossil Park, which is literally fossilized remains of 180 million year old forests, which is an interesting spot to visit during Jaisalmer tourism.
  • Gadisar Lake which lies south of the city walls, once supplying water to the entire city of Jaisalmer, which is surrounded by small temples and shrines.

There are many Rajasthan tour packages covering Jaisalmer tourism which are constructed with rich tour content, for instance eight day Rajasthan tour packages are designed to cover

ï­Bikaner on the first two days taking the party to Junagarh Fort, Bhandasar Jain Temple and Rat templernï­Third and fourth day at Jaisalmer showing all the above stated attractions therernï­Fifth and sixth day at Jodhpur visiting Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada there and ï­on the Seventh and eighth day at Jaipur where Jailsalmer tourism ends after seeing Amer Fort, City Palace, Jantar Manar, Hawa Mahal, Lakshmi Narain Mandir and few other places.

Rajasthan tour packages would also offer Jaisalmer tourism trips for 2 Nights/3 days also confining to Jaisalmer and one other Rajasthan city of attraction only.

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