{"id":16564,"date":"2013-11-09T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2013-11-09T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:54:53","slug":"india-photo-tour-2013-jodhpur-to-jaisalmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/india-photo-tour-2013-jodhpur-to-jaisalmer\/","title":{"rendered":"India Photo Tour 2013: Jodhpur to Jaisalmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an amazing 2 days in the blue city of Jodhpur, we headed north and west towards the Pakistan border to Jaisalmer.\u00a0 Jaisalmer is named after its founder Maharawal Jaisal Singh, a Rajput king in 1156 AD. “Jaisalmer” means “the Hill Fort of Jaisal”. Jaisalmer is sometimes called the “Golden City of India” because the yellow sand and the yellow sandstone used in every architecture of the city gives a yellowish-golden tinge to the city and its surrounding area.<\/p>\n

Jaisalmer has an imposing fort, built in 1156 by the Bhati Rajput ruler Jaisal, Jaisalmer. The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote a detective novel and later turned it into a film \u2212 Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) which was based on this fort. This is a living fort and about a quarter of city’s population still live within its protective walls.<\/p>\n

Jaisalmer is the quintessential India of one’s childhood dreams and it never fails to offer up a fantastic array of photographic possibilities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ursula in doorway Jodhpur<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Lew, at the cenotaphs, Jaisalmer<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>D.V. working a shot at the cenotaphs, Jaisalmer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rojean<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jan and Lew<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Barber, Jaisalmer<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Making Masala chai, Jaisalmer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Young acrobat, Jaisalmer fort<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Entrance gate, old city, Jaisalmer<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sunset, Khuri<\/p>\n

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After an amazing 2 days in the blue city of Jodhpur, we headed north and west towards the Pakistan border to Jaisalmer.\u00a0 Jaisalmer is named after its founder Maharawal Jaisal Singh, a Rajput king in 1156 AD. “Jaisalmer” means “the Hill Fort of Jaisal”. Jaisalmer is sometimes called the “Golden City of India” because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16601,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions\/16601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}