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Jaisalmer, a world heritage site on Golden Triangle Tour

There is no exception when it comes to travelling to Rajasthan that you will enjoy and get a great travel enthusiasm and joy in the state of valour and sand. A colourful state truly known for its chivalry, camel safari and dunes is a prized itinerary when scheduled on the most popular India Golden Triangle Tour. Among, many a great number of tourist destinations and locations at Rajasthan that you can visit during your India Group Tours on a Golden Triangle Tour is Jaisalmer city that fitting appropriately also known to be as “The Golden City”.            
 
Jaislmer City - Golden Triangle Tour  
             
A World heritage site Jaisalmer is located about 575 kilometers away of the state capital Jaipur standing tall over yellowish sandstone ideally pitched with a fort and many other beautifully decorated Jain temples. The city of Jaisalmer is ideally located at the center of Thar Desert with a population of about one lakh people. 
    
In 1156, Rawal Jaisal built the fort and city of Jaisalmer at the top of Trikuta Hill and started charging taxes on the camel caravans passing by the Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer is an important location on two routes connecting India with Persia, Egypt and farther west.  However, the rulers at Jaisalmer in 1293 due to their taxation policy enraged Turkic ruler of Delhi Ala-ud-din- Khiliji that he razed the entire city to be deserted and come into the notice when Rawal Sahal Singh acknowledged the supremacy of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. After the decline of Mughal’s in 18th century, Jaisalmer came under the supremacy of Marathas and further subjugated by British East India Company.       

Jaisalmer Fort 
This historic city, an important trade route to India and central Asia has an average height of 229 meters and situated close to India and Pakistan border in West Rajasthan. Jaisalmer mostly is a sandy area and partly a part of Thar Desert. At Jaisalmer, you will observe a very long and stretched sea of sand dunes and many of them rises to 150 feet (46m).  As you are lucky to observe during your Golden Triangle Group Tour that Jaislmer largely is a tourist city and you will observe crowd there majorly four months of year including November, December, January and February.

There are many a great places of attraction in Jaisalmer, however, the most favourite one there is Jaisalmer Fort also known to be “Sonar Qila” due to the yellow stone that was constructed out there. What makes this fort exceptional is sun and golden shades of the desert providing an epic look to this mega fort. 

Gadisar, Lake 

Colourful shades of the setting sun and golden hues of the desert ambience give a fairy tale look to this mega structured fort. The interior of the fort is amazing. It is a 'working fort,' meaning that unlike every other fort in India, there are people living and working within its walls. Tourists can also visit many havelis of rich merchants, which are also having a touch of great classical interior and design. Gadisar, a rainwater lake that supplies water to the city surrounded by temples and tombs of saints is another attractive place over there.  Jain Temples and Patwon Ki Haveli are other places of attraction in the city.      

Jain Temples, Jaisalmer  

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