Top 4 Places to Visit in Jaisalmer!

Welcome to the enchanting golden city of Jaisalmer, India – where history, culture, and mystique converge in a mesmerizing tapestry of experiences!

**Explore the Majestic Jaisalmer Fort**
Discover the living legacy of Jaisalmer Fort, one of the largest fully preserved fortified cities in the world. Built in 1156 AD by Rawal Jaisal, the fort stands proudly on Trikuta Hill and is made entirely of golden-yellow sandstone, earning it the moniker “Sonar Quila” or the “Golden Fort.” The intricate architecture houses a vibrant marketplace, ornate palaces, and intricately carved Jain temples, all of which stand as a testament to the rich history and grandeur of Rajasthan.

**Discover Artistry at its Finest – Traditional Jewelry Making**
Immerse yourself in the time-honored tradition of jewelry making in Jaisalmer. Artisans skillfully craft intricate pieces using a unique one-hand wheel technique, a method passed down through generations. The designs are often inspired by the rich cultural tapestry of Rajasthan, incorporating symbols and motifs that tell stories of the region’s history and folklore.

**Jainism and Tranquility at Amar Sagar Jain Temple**
Step into the serene embrace of Amar Sagar Jain Temple, a marvel of architecture and spirituality. Dedicated to Lord Parshvanath, the temple complex includes a stunning seven-story tower known as the “Shikhar,” adorned with exquisitely carved figures and motifs. The temple also features a breathtaking collection of ancient manuscripts and artifacts, providing a deep dive into the roots of Jainism and its cultural significance.

**Embark on a Spine-Chilling Adventure in Kuldhara**
Explore the enigmatic village of Kuldhara, a testament to the eerie mysteries of the past. Abandoned in the early 19th century, the village is believed to be haunted, and locals recount tales of its sudden evacuation. The reasons behind the desertion remain unclear, adding an air of intrigue to the ghostly atmosphere. Wander through the deserted streets and let your imagination weave tales of the village’s mysterious past.

**Witness the Sunset Magic**
As the day draws to a close, experience the magic of a Jaisalmer sunset. The fort and temples, bathed in the warm hues of the setting sun, create a surreal and ethereal panorama. The play of light on the golden sandstone transports you to a different time, making each sunset a unique and unforgettable spectacle.

**Why Jaisalmer?**
Jaisalmer, with its storied fort, artistic traditions, spiritual landmarks, and haunted villages, is a destination that invites you to unravel its rich tapestry. Whether you’re a history buff, a culture enthusiast, or an adventure seeker, Jaisalmer promises an immersive experience that transcends time and captivates the soul.

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Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another  journey. Today we’re in Rajasthan India Jaisalmer.   We’re at a really cool fortress. If you’re new  to the channel, this is April and I’m Wayne.   Hit that subscribe button and smash that bell.  So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! what’s  

Kind of neat about the fortress here it’s  the only living fortress in the world the fort   has actually been habited since 1156 that’s  crazy crazy especially to be out here in the   desert of Jaisalmer and Rajasthan India I couldn’t  imagine living out here in the desert back in  

The day when getting water and food would be very  difficult without modern transportation this is   Peeps he owns Delightful India Holidays so if  you guys need a tour hit him up we’ll put the   link below this is second oldest and second  biggest fort of the Rajasthan but only fort in  

India still people are living inside right and  this fort was not only built as a beautiful   fort also built as a strong there’s a three walls  supporting wall boundary wall building wall that’s   why the fort is so tough yes the building on top  these building these are known as bastions oh yes  

Bastion it means like a watch tower and 99 watch tower surrounding the fort and the soldiers stay there   and in some of the bastions there are some cannons  if anybody tried to be attacked then they use  

Cannon so what is that cannon made out of uh  some of the made of irons some of made of the   brass or some of the alloy okay there’s a  flag on the top this is King’s Palace they are  

Belong to the Lord Krishna’s family and the  personal flag of the Jaisalmer state there’s also   […] in its center and this fort was built in  1156 how long did it take to build 350 years  

To oh wow said and there is only one way for the  entrance and exit we going from this way and come   back from the same way see the stones that are sitting on top of the wall those are basically welcoming  

Stones if invaders tried to come in and take over  the palace they would throw those stones off and   they would roll down the hill and smash them that  came in the door would get the sweets and the nice  

Welcome those that try and climb the wall that’s  a hard welcoming hard enemies they use elephant to   broke the door yeah run fast and hit the door  but when elephant turn they lose the speed oh  

Yeah so they can’t hit the forcely and to kill  the elephant or to stop the next attack they use   there was a spears on the door yeah when hit the door spears punch the elephant right and front part of  

Elephant is too sensitive he cannot be expect any  […] there so because of the […] elephant not hit   again and sometime they put some poison on the  top of the spear okay for the security purpose  

They built two more gate before this one and one  after this if enemies they broke the one door   they need to pass one more more so that gives  more strength was this fort ever captured that  

Was the captured by one of the empire in Delhi  that’s Alauddin Khalji that was the year of near about   13 end of 13th century oh okay they kept the fort  after that but not a long they move out from here  

Because they couldn’t survive they didn’t know  how to survive they have no power they have no    stamina to be in the desert yeah yeah they’re  like uh we captured something we don’t want as you can tell the fort is still occupied  today people actually live in the city it’s  

The only for in India that people still  live in today and have continuously lived   in since the 1156 Jaisalmer famous for the work on yellow sandstone beautiful   architecture mind-blowing carving it’s easy  to scratch but not easy to be carve on that  

Architecture when they work on this one they  have to be much careful about of hammer is   go little more all work is so all their  […] they have to be put on that okay   and we’re going to try some its name  is ghotua ghotua is made with the grain

Flour reminds me of eating cookie though when I  would bake cookies really yeah I don’t know I can   see why you think of it as cookie though yeah  day after tomorrow they put a lot of different  

Kind of sweets lot of different kind of varieties  of days and and lots of selling they are going to   be sell right everybody’s getting ready for Diwali what is that this is the desert cucumber and this is grows mostly  

In after rain now we have some groundwater some  […] so people grow up also this one   but mostly especially […]] is comes at the time  of the August and September these are the green   onions yeah the green onions I’ve never seen  them yeah no […] used to grow these are only  

Little bit we have yet sure everything’s organic  right yes yeah kids you probably don’t know what   that is but this is what they used to use before  they had power yeah to drill a hole no I see what  

You’re doing you’re making it uh a template  really but you used that for a line didn’t we   yeah because we don’t use like a measurement we  have the different way of to measure sure then  

Its rings comes in the same size so you count  how many times it goes around yeah oh I see   you’re going to interlock them and make them  into an actual chain yes sir now what is that  

This is solder solder is that silver then or yeah  this is a silver but the solder like this one the   melting is the 85% this is the pure silver right  yeah because this have to be lower little lower  

Otherwise it not easy to make the solder actually nowadays in the big cities they just cut from the machine   sure but Jaisalmer is the backward area then we prefer to have old real hand wheel the old way of doing it  

What is that yeah this is the like a normal water  I’m cleaning this plate and then I’m putting the chemical this is the chemical that’s we  call swagi to helping to make the solder ring   without this we can’t melt the silver  and can’t we are not able to make the  

Joint you’re actually painting it on  the joints itself this is the design   what she brings to me and then and I’m just  going to make the copy what’s the order to me you get you get it nice and hot  and then you just touch it to melt  

It yeah and fill the joint if you  put too much then it makes it mess right yeah that’s where the that’s where  the art comes in it have to be the like perfect those are the same ones that you soldered  together now you cut them apart again yeah why  

You why’d you do that to get the measurement  and then if there is I need more bigger wire   than this ring then I will melt this again and  I will make the more bigger oh so you’re doing  

This just as a sample to see how big it would  actually wind up that’s how you’re measuring it   yes sir so you actually have to make a protoype  to make the actual necklace just like now this  

Is little bit there is not much gap there’s  not enough gap then I use the other one tool   to make a little bigger and then again I will do  the same process oh how many hours will it take  

To make the necklace 14 hours or something 14  hours yes oh wow but this is still not perfect   I will make again this rings and again I will do  the same things right until you get exactly what  

You want yep and so this time you’ll make it a  a bigger shaft to go around to make the rings   this is done now like this and now I’m going to  change so now he’s using a bigger shaft to get  

Bigger ring yes sir now is it the same piece of  silver then yes sir okay so you’re confident   that this is going to be the size that you need  for the rings yes sir that’s why you’re doing the  

Whole piece now okay in the beginning just we need  for the measurement after that we just do easily these are the known as Jain temples actually  Jainism and Buddhism also these are the part   of the Hinduism some of the peoples they are not  satisfied with the Hinduism because Hinduism  

They are divided in lot of caste system and there  are lot of god goddess local God so some of the   people they want to be follow the right way of  worship in a Jainism they are not believe in a god  

They believe in prophets like in Buddhism there  is only one prophet in Jainism there are 24 prophets   so they asked to the Kings we want to build  the Jain Temple inside the fort because fort   is safe near about 250 years there are eight  different temples and each temple was built  

By the different families all architecture is  called Pure Indian architecture style I noticed   that sign about ladies having their period yes  why is that because in that time humans they   had like blood circulations they thought it  was unclean or so that one is be maybe got down  

On the ground well back then you didn’t have  you know feminine products so it could they   could drop blood in the temple okay and now  that there is that I think you’re saying that   they’re just women and men are still separate or  something yes it’s just tradition at this point  

It’s just their tradition yeah yeah how old  is this door you think uh this door is more than   400 year old wow i love the chain this […] is still in a quite good conditions wooden furnitures once a year they  

Clean with the cow’s urine because cow’s urine  is stopped the termite so they polish with the   the cow urine and wait for 2-3 hours then after they  clean with the water when I was young that time  

We also did at our old furniture we clean with  the cows urine so early morning 4:00 4:30 5:00   we go with the bucket and we wait for wait for  the cow go when they wake up and then when they we  

Put it like that does not sound like a fun job April  will you collect the cow urine for me nope we’re   here at the Amar Sagar Jain Temple if you don’t know much about the Jain religion which we’ve just learned  

About ourselves is they will not harm anything  they won’t even eat roots out of the ground   because they’d be afraid to hurt the earthworms  very strict religion as far as making sure that   they hurt no living animals or things and this  is our first actual Jain Temple that we’ve been  

To right this temple is a 200 year old in the time  Northern use oh hand and chisel even this yeah is   200 years old yes wow I thought it was a modern  building look at this so is this one of your Gods  

Marble it’s marble yeah Krishna Krishna thank you  wow it’s a beautiful on this Temple it’s insane […]   all handmade handmade wow that’s a dry lake yeah  you can see out properly now now does it fill  

Up with water in the monsoon season yeah yeah so  is this a village a village everybody Jain no no   everybody Mali what’s Mali it’s a caste in Hindu  oh okay Hindu caste for for all Rajasthan yeah nice  

Is that a fort what is what is that Garden of  the King Garden of the Kings only for some few   villagers can go oh okay so it’s forbidden  for the most part yeah this is the upper temple  

Yeah lots of elephants yes what is that one  it’s a tiger it’s a tiger oh okay yes elephant and so the elephant and the tiger all symbols of superiority we’re out here in the desert in an abandoned  village they call it it’s a haunted place  

Place is pretty cool it reminds me of Apache  Death Caves in Arizona card above according   to folklore Kuldhara was an ancient village of the  Paliwal Brahmins who migrated from the the region of   Pali they built 84 villages around Kuldhara but had to  abandon the village almost overnight attributed  

To various causes ranging from persecution by  Salim Singh a powerful minister of Jaisalmer state   to drought and earthquake the village remained  abandoned since the early 19th century there’s   so many structures some trippy looking cactus  like I’ve never seen that kind before at all  

I wonder if the cactus is original or planted or  grown I don’t think this is a fountain but they   probably use this to store the water in maybe  their version of a stepwell it almost seems  

Newer it it does seem newer that little row boat’s  not exactly new this must have been like the main   area these look new yeah I mean you look at all  this that’s definitely not new looks like it’s  

An abandoned temple I’m assuming this is Hindu  yeah I remember seeing the the blue guy here   but look at this ancient writing I love visiting  abandoned places doesn’t matter where we’re at I   don’t know just something cool about seeing where  people used to live and then just magically just  

Disappeared you know they say this place is  haunted if you come at nighttime I don’t like   ghosts or snakes. We want to thank you guys for  watching our video all the way to the end. If you  

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