Desert Festival

Once 12 months throughout winters, the sands around Jaisalmer come alive with the top-notch colourings, tune, and laughter of the Desert Festival. Dressed in brilliantly hued costumes, the humans of the desert dance and sing haunting ballads of courage, romance, and tragedy. The truthful has snake charmers, puppeteers, acrobats, and folk performers. Camels, of the route, play a stellar role in this competition, where the vibrant and colorful folk’s tradition of Rajasthan is on show. The pageant closes with a captivating sound and light display amidst the dunes on a moonlit night.

The Jaisalmer fort offers an ethereal backdrop to the once a year wasteland competition. Sponsored with the aid of the Rajasthan State Tourism Corporation, this competition is a happy party of the traditional performing arts and innovative crafts of Rajasthan.

Celebrations

A few days earlier than the spring full moon in line with the Hindu calendar, musicians, dancers, and performers from throughout Rajasthan begin shifting in colorful camel caravans in the direction of the golden city of Jaisalmer, which dons a festive look. The otherwise barren panorama splashed with bright colorations marking the hole of the Desert Festival. The twelfth-century castle of Jaisalmer, built in yellow sandstone, provides a fairytale history. Over the years, the desolate tract dwellers in their solitude have woven a fascinating tapestry with threads of track and rhythm, and the Desert Festival is a party in their heritage. It is a threat of an entire life to look at the folk artwork paperwork towards the panorama that has nurtured them for loads of years.

With the appearance of the artists, a lovely collection of programs starts in and around Jaisalmer. There is a tune anywhere and at each given hour. Through the winding lanes of the fortified city to the dunes and even the rivers of deserted villages, the music casts a powerful spell. Beginning at sunrise, it reaches its zenith beneath the umbrella of the star-studded sky. Though it's far especially a pageant of the appearing arts, several other occasions supply a glimpse of the wasteland lifestyle

Through the day, traffic can come head to head with the wasteland craftsmen. Exquisitely embroidered skirts, hand-woven shawls, rugs, carvings on wood and stone, camel decorations, decorated leather-based baggage, ethnic silver earrings, and terracotta are brought in from all over the desert. These skillfully done crafts are gadgets artwork for the handicraft buff.

Vibrating wasteland drums heard for miles around. Nearly all of the versions of acting arts of those desolate tract human beings are displayed. Continuing till overdue into the night time, the number of spectators swells up each night time and the grand finale, on the overall moon night time, takes area with the aid of silvery dunes.

Although the basic design of the competition remains equal, every 12 months there are some new events. Some of the maximum incredible and noteworthy suggests of beyond festivals had been the dream-like pageant, "Blood, Blade, and Romance" on the dunes recreating the mythical beyond; the camel tattoo of the Border Security Force, which has a relatively skilled camel corps to defend the western border; and the pulsating people ensemble of a hundred musicians.