Other sights in Jaisalmer
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Salim Singh-ki-Haveli
This private haveli has an amazing, distinctive shape – the top storey mushrooms out into a mass of carving, with graceful arched balconies surmounted by pale blue cupolas. It was built about 300 years ago; part of it is still occupied. Salim Singh was a fearsome prime minister when Jaisalmer was the capital of a princely state.
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Nathmal-ki-Haveli
This late-19th-century haveli was also a Jaisalmer prime minister’s house and is still partly inhabited. It drips with carving, and the 1st floor has some beautiful paintings that used 1.5kg of gold. A doorway is surrounded by 19th-century British postcards from the prime minister’s time, and there’s also a picture of Queen Victoria. The left and right wings were the work of two brothers, whose competitive spirit apparently produced this virtuoso work – the two sides are similar, but not identical. Sandstone elephants welcome visitors/shoppers.
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Fort Palace Museum
The Jaisalmer fort is entered through a forbidding series of massive gates leading to a large courtyard fronted by the elegant seven-storey palace. Part of the palace is open to the public as the Fort Palace Museum. The foreigner admission includes an audio guide and camera fee. With floor upon floor of fascinating rooms that peep creepily on the outside world, the highlights are the mirrored and painted Rang Mahal, a small gallery of finely wrought 15th-century sculptures and the spectacular 360-degree views from the top.
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Kothari’s Patwa Haveli Museum
Most magnificent of all the havelis, its stonework like honey-coloured lace, Patwa-ki-Havel i towers over a narrow lane. It was built between 1800 and 1860 by five Jain brothers who were brocade and jewellery merchants. It’s most impressive from the outside. The first of the five sections is opened as the privately owned Kothari’s Patwa Haveli Museum, which richly evokes 19th-century life. Next door is the forlorn and empty (apart from pigeons and bats) government-owned haveli.
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Parasnath Temple
Behind Chandraprabhu temple is Parasnath Temple, which you enter through a beautifully carved torana (architrave); it has a lovely, brightly painted ceiling.
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Sambhavanth Temple
In the front courtyard of the beautiful Sambhavanth Temple, Jain priests grind sandalwood for devotional use.
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Shantinath
The temple Shantinath below the Gyan Bhandar was built in 1536, and with plenty of sensual carving.
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Kunthunath
Kunthunath temple is below the Gyan Bhandar and was built in 1536 with plenty of sensual carving.
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Shitalnath Temple
Shitalnath Temple is dedicated to the 10th tirthankar, with an eight-metal image.
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Gyan Bhandar
Gyan Bhandar is a fascinating, tiny library of ancient manuscripts, founded in 1500.
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