Desert City
Once a city prosperous with trading caravans plying the route from Central Asia to India, the bloody divorce between India and the new country of Pakistan ended the flow and almost relegated Jaisalmer to a slow, dry oblivion.
Instead, it has reinvented itself as a supply depot for the Indian army (and we saw no shortage of Indian jet fighters plying the skies of India’s border with Pakistan), as well as a major tourist destination in Rajasthan, the fort and camel safaris into the desert the primary draws.
Some images from the small (78,000 people), hot, dry, dusty town of Jaisalmer.
February 11th, 2009 in
India
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