I was recently in India on holiday and as we were travelling around Rajasthan, I was told about this small ghost town near Jaisalmer that had a very interesting story and which I felt I simply had to visit.
It's a protected site that you have to pay a small fee to get into. There do seem to be parts of the town that are being slowly renovated, such as the temple and the bandstand-type structure you see in the photos, but most of it is just rubble that stretches on for ages.
The story goes that in the 13th century, a tyrannical king wanted to marry the daughters of one of locals of the town. Fearful that the daughter would be taken away from town and that nothing could be done, all 1500 locals from the village disappeared one night and were never seen again. It is said they simply migrated away to escape the king, but the fact that the entire town went in one go is rather astonishing. There are those who claim the town is haunted and that you can spirits from the locals trying to reach their homes at night.
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It's a protected site that you have to pay a small fee to get into. There do seem to be parts of the town that are being slowly renovated, such as the temple and the bandstand-type structure you see in the photos, but most of it is just rubble that stretches on for ages.
The story goes that in the 13th century, a tyrannical king wanted to marry the daughters of one of locals of the town. Fearful that the daughter would be taken away from town and that nothing could be done, all 1500 locals from the village disappeared one night and were never seen again. It is said they simply migrated away to escape the king, but the fact that the entire town went in one go is rather astonishing. There are those who claim the town is haunted and that you can spirits from the locals trying to reach their homes at night.
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