Click to play videoJaisalmer: Are you planning to take desert safari in the Thar anytime soon? Like many tourists who happen to be there right now, you might just have to settle for what looks only like a half-baked desert. Exceptional rainfall for three consecutive years has altered the desert making it green.
Rajasthan is in for a lush green makeover. So tourists who come looking for sand dunes to Jaisalmer right now are in for a bit of surprise as finding the sand dunes become really difficult with exceptionally heavy monsoons lashing the region.
Pierre Rayba, a tourist in Jaisalmer said, “the desert in northern Africa is only sand and rocks whereas here I found a desert, which to me is not really a desert.”
After an unusually heavy rainfall for the third time in the last five years roadside puddles of rainwater dot the entire desert terrain. Even the Jaisalmer fort, famously known as the Shonar Quila for its golden hues, sits on a green hillock.
Ajay Singh who's been escorting groups of tourists for desert safaris in the sand dunes for eight years now is at a loss. He is clueless as to how to reinvent desert safaris to attract tourists when the desert has gone green.
The new look of the desert state heralds different fate for different people in Rajasthan. The rain gods have given the farmers a reason to laugh, while it is a cause of concern for the tourism industry, which would certainly lose its luster with the fading deserts.
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