Jaisalmer is one of the major tourist attractions and cultural center of southern Asia in India, in the state of Rajasthan, Right on the border with Pakistan, and invited observers and nature lovers with three parks that make your visit an unforgettable trip.
Desert National Park Jaisalmer is 40 km Jaisalmer and can be visited between November and March each year. To reach, take a car or bus from the city of Jaisalmer and within the park to camp, do some safari and bird watching and natural phenomena.
It is a protected sanctuary, considered the largest state Rajasthan and one of the largest in India, occupying an area of 3100 km2. It is known that the desert is a great place to live, so most of the representatives of plants and animals that inhabit it, they do at the edges, in turn attracting birds from other places like Bharatpur and transformed into a paradise.
In the strange landscape of the dry bed of an ancient salt lake surrounded by thorny bushes, there is this miracle of nature, considering also that a large part of the park consists of dunes. You can hire a safari in jeeps. Do not forget camera and binoculars!
Petrified Forest Jaisalmer Situated 17 km from the city Jaisalmer the main road to Barmer, can be reached by taxi or auto-rickshaw. Here we see the fossil remains of a Jurassic forest, which stood for 130 or 180 million years! Fossils are 25 spread over an area of 10 km2, with specimens of different sizes, as some 13 meters long and 1 , 5 meters in diameter.
Bada Bagh: It is 6 km from Jaisalmer, the road to RamgarhAnd then on we can take a taxi or auto-rickshaw. The main attractions are the Garden and the cenotaph. The creation of the garden was commissioned by Maharawal Jait Singh in the sixteenth century and completed by his son Lunak, the areas are the garden, a pond and a dam. The largest structure is the dam, called Jait Bandh, 1,200 feet long and 350 feet wide, built of massive blocks of stone have also been used to construct the pond.
The cenotaphs known as chattris were built by different rulers Bhatti, the oldest is Maharawal Jait Singh, mid-fifteenth century and the last is 1947. It belongs to a prince died of a rare disease. This was taken by the family as a bad omen, and so the tradition came to an end. |