PNike (Prashanth Naik)
heading home before the sun explodes.. (explored)
I got this one during my trip to the princely state of Rajasthan in India. It is a place filled with wonderful palaces and forts but is also covered with the really stark landscape, the Thar desert, which covers 1/3rd of the entire state.
We took a very long and back-breaking ride on the camels to reach the fantastic sand dunes of the Thar and I was able to grab a few shots of our guide with the camels, taking a stroll before the sunset.
Hope you guys like it. Thanks again for your visit and for your wonderful comments.
This got explored on 15th, June 2011. Best position No.2
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About Jaisalmer:
Jaysalmer, nicknamed "The Golden City", is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located 575 kilometres (357 mi) west from the state capital Jaipur. It was once known as Jaisalmer state. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain temples. Many of the houses and temples are finely sculptured. It lies in the heart of the Thar Desert and has a population of about 78,000. It is the administrative headquarters of Jaisalmer District.
About Rajasthan
Rājasthān (the land of colours[1]) the land of Rajasthanis, is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. The state is bordered by Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,239 km². The proportion of the state's total area to the total area of the country is 10.41 per cent.
Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the state. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga, which are the oldest in the subcontinent discovered so far.
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heading home before the sun explodes.. (explored)
I got this one during my trip to the princely state of Rajasthan in India. It is a place filled with wonderful palaces and forts but is also covered with the really stark landscape, the Thar desert, which covers 1/3rd of the entire state.
We took a very long and back-breaking ride on the camels to reach the fantastic sand dunes of the Thar and I was able to grab a few shots of our guide with the camels, taking a stroll before the sunset.
Hope you guys like it. Thanks again for your visit and for your wonderful comments.
This got explored on 15th, June 2011. Best position No.2
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About Jaisalmer:
Jaysalmer, nicknamed "The Golden City", is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located 575 kilometres (357 mi) west from the state capital Jaipur. It was once known as Jaisalmer state. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain temples. Many of the houses and temples are finely sculptured. It lies in the heart of the Thar Desert and has a population of about 78,000. It is the administrative headquarters of Jaisalmer District.
About Rajasthan
Rājasthān (the land of colours[1]) the land of Rajasthanis, is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert), which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan. The state is bordered by Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 132,150 sq mi or 342,239 km². The proportion of the state's total area to the total area of the country is 10.41 per cent.
Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the state. Geographical features include the Thar Desert along north-western Rajasthan and the termination of the Ghaggar River near the archaeological ruins at Kalibanga, which are the oldest in the subcontinent discovered so far.
Source Wikipedia