Jaisalmer Fort

Jaisalmer – home of the Desert Festival! By Zoe

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March 5th 2011
So we arrived in Jaisalmer at 5.30am, slept on the train, gotta love sleeper berths! We were picked up by Karim, one of the employees of the hotel we stayed at called Desert Moon. There was a lot of water on the ground and Karim said that it had rained during the day, rain in a desert, who knew. He showed us to our rooms and off to bed we went for another 3 hours sleep, hooray! We woke up for brea ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more