H0TEL IN JAISALMER

Hotel in Jaisalmer

This ancient silk route town was founded in 1156 when Jaisal started to build this amazing Fort on top of a rocky hill.  It is a city of camels, desert, sand dunes, oases, wonderful tribal people with heavy silver jewellry, and hardy farmers growing crops enduring the scanty rainfall.   Jaisalmer is a city of carved golden sandstone havelies and palaces, beautiful gems of old Jain temples, busy brilliant Hindu temples.  The city is famous for its handicrafts and artwork in textiles, mirrorwork, patchwork, bedcovers, wooden toys, silver and gold jewellry.  See the steps, ghats, chattris and gateways on to a sparkling lake so you think the temples are floating on the water.  Ancient deserted villages in the desert, old temples so quiet and peaceful, step wells, Royal memorial chattris, lakes and oases... all for you to discover close to Jaisalmer.

Jaisalmer is a wonderful place to relax, to talk to the friendly locals, to enjoy shopping, sunrise or sunset places, pass a day or two with the camels on safari in the desert as has been done for hundreds of years, wander the streets admiring the carved balconies, tasting the delicious Rajasthani cuisine and the locally made icecream.

The father of recreational camping in the UK was Thomas Hiram Holding, a British travelling tailor. He experienced camping out in the wild from his youth, when he had spent much time with his parents traveling across the American prairies. Later he embarked on a cycling and camping tour with some friends across Ireland.[2] His book on his Ireland experience, Cycle and Camp in Connemara led to the formation of the first camping group in 1901, the Association of Cycle Campers, later to become the Camping and Caravanning Club.[3] He wrote The Campers Handbook in 1908, so that he could share his enthusiasm for the great outdoors with the world.[4] 

Possibly the first camping ground in the world was Cunningham’s camp, near Douglas, Isle of Man, which opened in 1894. In 1906 the Association of Cycle Campers opened its first own camping site, in Weybridge.[5] By that time the organization had several hundred members. In 1910 the Association was merged into the National Camping Club. Although WW1 was responsible for a certain hiatus in camping activity, the association received a new lease of life after the war when Sir Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts movement) became its' president. 

The International Federation of Camping Clubs (Federation Internationale de Camping et de Caravanning) was founded in 1932 with national clubs from all over the world affiliating with it. By the 1960s camping had become an established family holiday standard and today camp sites are ubiqitous across Europe and North America.