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  Rajasthan Tour Dairies Day 2 contd The Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was built by Maharaja Sardar Singh of Jodhpur State in 1899 in memory of his father, Maharaja Jaswant Singh II,  and serves as the cremation ground for the royal Rajput family of Marwar. Very close to the fort like Taj Mahal visible from the Red this memorial was built by a  son to his father the guide was saying that few of Queen' s jewels were sold and used to build it. The cenotaph is built out of intricately carved sheets of   Makrana marble . These sheets are extremely thin and polished so that they emit a warm glow when illuminated by the Sun.   The cenotaph's grounds feature carved   gazebos , a tiered garden, and a small lake. There are three other cenotaphs in the grounds. The cenotaph of Maharaja Jaswant Singh displays portraits of the rulers and Maharajas of Jodhpur.

  Rajasthan Tour Diaries Day 2 Today it is the day of city tour of Jodhpur.  Our first stop the Magnificent Mehrangarh Fort  meaning  Sun Fort as the Rathores who built this are ftom Kanauj UP and are Suryavanshis. It's an UNESCO site and the present Maharaja  Gaj Singh Rathore was crowned when he was very young and the seat of his coronation in marble in the  center courtyard of women quarters.   Mehrangarh Fort   Mehrangarh the Fort of Jodhpur crowns a rocky hill that rises 400 feet above the surrounding plain, and appears both to command and to meld with the landscape. One of the largest forts in Rajasthan, it contains some of the finest palaces and preserves in its museum many priceless relics of Indian courtly life.   For over five centuries Mehrangarh has been the headquarters of the senior branch of Rajput clan known as the Rathores. According to their bards, the ruling dynasty of this clan had at an earlier period controlled Kanauj (in what is known as Uttar Pradesh).

While part 1 dealt with the town called Osian and Kuldevi Sachchiyay Mataji, this is all about how this place is an happening place as a Adventure tourism town.  The people have made use of Thar Desert and created a wonderful tourist attraction tons eith many Desert safari rides and safari camps. Before I write about the tourism part,let me take you the Rajasthan's famous Step well.  Of course this is an unused well but these step wells were the source of water for people and there were also shops that were there to make the step wells a good connecting neighborhood place.  Even if 1000 people are going to use gge step well at the sane time there will never be a situation where one has to cross the other either while going up or down.  What an ingenious engineering Feat by our ancestors. It is also believed that that there were treasure that they found in this step well which was used to build the maataji temple.  What a beautiful view of the temple from this place. The Adventure