Travel Guide Kuldhara

18 km west of Jaisalmer. Lost in the middle of a desert expanse, the village is made up of ruins and ochre sandstone houses, whose facades are covered with red and white motifs. A temple is built on the roof of one of them. At the end of the day, you will enjoy a superb sunset.According to a legend, 180 years ago, the inhabitants of 84 neighbouring villages, including those of Kuldhara, deserted their homes in the middle of the night. No one knows where they really went, but it seems to be near Jodhpur. The inhabitants were Brahmin Paliwal, known as very intelligent, who had lived here for 500 years. According to some, at that time, the governor of the region treated them in an inhuman way, overcharged them with taxes and did not respect them. They would therefore have had no choice but to flee the village in the middle of the night to escape their tyrannical governor forever.Another story tells that a maharaja is the cause of the exodus. He would have liked to marry a woman from the village, but her family would have opposed the wedding. Angered, the maharaja would have threatened to kill the inhabitants if he was not granted the girl's hand. Refusing to give in to blackmail, the whole village would have preferred to flee. But even today the soul of the villagers is still omnipresent in Kuldhara...Access to the site 50 Rs.