About Desert Festival Jaisalmer   :
Experience the vibrancy of the Thar Desert during your Rajasthan travel. Held once a year during winters, the Rajasthan desert comes alive with the brilliant colors, music and laughter of the Desert Festival of Jaisalmer. Dressed in brilliantly hued costumes, the people of the desert dance and sing haunting ballads of valor, romance and tragedy. The fair has snake charmers, puppeteers, acrobats and folk performers. Camels, of course, play a stellar role in this festival, where the rich and colorful folk culture of Rajasthan is on show.The Jaisalmer Fort provides an ethereal backdrop to the annual Desert Festival celebrating the traditional performing arts and creative crafts of Rajasthan. The otherwise barren landscape is splashed with vibrant colors marking the opening of the Desert Festival. Over the years, the desert dwellers in their solitude have woven a fascinating tapestry with threads of music and rhythm and the Desert Festival is a celebration of their heritage. It is a chance of a lifetime to see the folk art forms against the landscape that has nurtured them for hundreds of years during your Rajasthan tour.
Through the day, visitors can come face to face with the desert craftsmen. Exquisitely embroidered skirts, hand-woven shawls, rugs, carvings on wood and stone, camel decorations, embroidered leather bags, ethnic silver jewelry and terracotta are brought in from all over the desert. These skillfully achieved crafts are objects d'art for the handicraft buff and are great buys for tourists on Rajasthan vacation.A bewildering array of folk music recitals are performed at the festival premises and the show continues till late into the night. The Desert Festival is a very prestigious event especially for musicians. While the renowned musicians come up with newer and more amazing performances, for the new faces, the festival is a god given opportunity to display their talent in front of a distinguished gathering.