Location: Vyas Chhatri, Bada Bagh, Ramgarh Road, Ram Kund, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
How to reach: Better to take an auto-rickshaw or a rickshaw
Attraction: Architecture and sunset point
Timings: 08 AM – 07:30 PM
Jaisalmer, a popular tourist destination of Rajasthan, is home to many historical monuments. Among them, a stone-built ‘pagoda’ on a sand mound, is Vyas Chhatri. Vyas Chhatri in Jaisalmer is named after iconic Indian saint Vyas who compiled world’s largest epic Mahabharata with more than 3,00,000 verses or ‘shlokas’ . Growing up, listening and watching those tales of the epic Mahabharata and then finally getting a chance to see something from its essence, how beautiful & fulfilling. India and its culture honor the deceased in many ways – burial, cremation, dispersal in holy waters etc. Where some built the Taj Mahal to honor the loving & now gone, Jaisalmer built ‘chhatris’ (Pagodas), in the arid desert at the cremation grounds of the wealthy & powerful.
