Jaisalmer Accessible Expedition

Jaisalmer is a city you can hear before you can see it — sandstone underfoot, khartal on open dune, the flat quiet of a village that emptied overnight. This expedition is built so that every traveller reaches all of it: the same fort wall, the same jeep ridge, the same story told out loud.

Forty of us. Six teams. One bus west. Everything below is already paid for — all you carry is your ID card.

Country Side Resort, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan · Departure 1st October · 3 days, 4 nights · ₹19,399 per person (double occupancy). Seats are limited to 30 — open the registration form.

Before you go

Six lines worth reading twice.

• Departure: 1st October, 4:00 PM sharp. The bus is parked and ready from 3:00 PM — please arrive on time.
• Group: 40 travellers in one premium AC sleeper deluxe bus.
• Cost: ₹19,399 per person on double occupancy.
• Accommodation: Country Side Resort — a 4-star resort with a swimming pool — for the full stay, in double-occupancy rooms.
• Original ID cards are mandatory. Day 2 runs through a restricted border area with BSF checkposts.
• Travel advisory: road timings may shift. Do not book onward transit on exact timings.

What ₹19,399 covers

Fully inclusive. Nothing further is collected during the trip.

• All meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, including the lunch on the road day.
• Tea and beverages at the resort and at the scheduled halts.
• Travel: premium AC sleeper deluxe bus for the entire trip — the onward and return journey, all transfers and all local sightseeing movement.
• Entry tickets at every stop on the itinerary — Jaisalmer Fort, the havelis, Tanot Mata Temple, Longewala War Memorial and Kuldhara Village.
• Activities: jeep safari, camel ride, the folk music sitting at Sam Sand Dunes.
• Guides: one dedicated tour guide per team of 8, for the full trip.
• Travel companions, ID cards and coordination staff throughout.

How we travel: two-on-one

Every visually challenged participant is paired 2-on-1 with a dedicated sighted travel companion. This is a partnership of equals, not a system of assistance — nobody is waited on, and nobody waits.

• Pairing for the full trip — one companion (TravAcser) with two travellers.
• Teams of eight — Teams A to F, each with its own team leader and guide. Teams stay together for the whole trip.

The coach: 2×1 AC sleeper

Three berths across the bus instead of four. A curtain you can draw, and a socket by your head.

The overnight leg to Jaisalmer is on a Gajraj 2×1 AC sleeper coach. The 2×1 layout means single berths run down one side and double berths down the other — three berths across the width of the bus instead of four, and noticeably more shoulder and elbow room than a standard sleeper.

• Every berth is a fully enclosed cabin with its own draw curtain for privacy.
• Inside each cabin: a quilted mattress with a pillow and a blanket, a padded headrest, an individual reading light, a dedicated AC vent, a two-pin charging socket, and a small steel rack for phones, water bottles and hand luggage.
• Room to move: tall enough to sit up in and long enough for a full stretch-out. Double berths comfortably fit two adults.
• Throughout the coach: full air-conditioning, a carpeted central aisle, LED cabin lighting, marked emergency exits, and large hold space underneath for suitcases.
• Onboard washroom: a glass-doored cubicle with a wash basin, mirror, health faucet and grab rails.

Please note: the onboard toilet is Indian-style (squat pan), not a Western commode.

Where we stay: Country Side Resort

Canvas roof, solid floor, hot shower, and a swimming pool at the edge of the dunes.

The Jaisalmer nights are spent on the Sam dunes belt at a 4-star countryside resort with a swimming pool — set up as a proper resort, not a basic tented halt. Accommodation is in permanent Swiss-style cottage tents: canvas roofs on solid raised floors, arranged in rows around landscaped hedging and a large open pool.

The tents.

• Each tent is a full room — a king or twin double bed with clean white linen, a seating area with chairs and a low table, bedside tables with lamps, a wardrobe or luggage rack, charging points, and a small private verandah with a chair out front.
• Tents are air-conditioned.
• Interiors follow a Rajasthani theme — carved wooden furniture, lantern lighting, striped or hand-painted canvas walls and Jaisalmer-stone detailing.

The bathrooms.

• Every tent has its own attached private bathroom with a Western-style flush commode — no shared facilities and no squat pans.
• Each includes a wash basin with mirror, a running-water hot shower (geyser), a health faucet, towels and basic toiletries.
• Floors are tiled or stone-finished, and the bathrooms are enclosed and lockable.

The grounds.

• An outdoor swimming pool, open through the day, with a shallow section and sun-loungers around the deck — a genuinely welcome thing after a day in the dunes.
• An open-air dining area, and a central stage and bonfire pit where the evening Rajasthani folk music and dance programme is held.
• Open desert directly beyond the property, for sunset camel and jeep safari departures.

Expedition — 1st October

The overnight run west. It starts on time.

• 3:15 PM — Assembly and boarding. Meet at the pickup point, pair up with your partner and secure luggage. The bus is parked and ready from 3:00 PM.
• 4:00 PM — Departure. The bus sets off on the overnight highway journey to Jaisalmer, reaching the resort around 8:00 AM the next morning. Travellers are encouraged to rest.
• Dinner halt at Jaipur — an evening stop on the outbound leg. Timing to be confirmed.

Day 1 — 2nd October · The fort and the desert

A living fort by daylight, open sand by dusk.

• 8:00 AM — Arrival and check-in. The bus pulls in at Country Side Resort. Rooms and luggage, freshening up and tea. The morning is deliberately light — settling in comes before sightseeing.
• 9:00 AM — Breakfast at the resort.
• 10:15 AM — Departure for Jaisalmer Fort, about 35 km east of the resort, in the heart of the old city.
• 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Jaisalmer Fort. Three unhurried hours inside a living fort of golden sandstone. Each team moves with its own guide along the main paved route, with touch stops at the carved walls, the gateways and the stone jharokhas — the guides describe scale, material and sound as you go. The inner lanes are lined with local handicraft, fabric and jooti shops, and there is time built in to browse and buy on the way through.
• 2:45 – 4:00 PM — Lunch back at the resort.
• 4:45 PM — Sam Sand Dunes, arranged by the resort: a short briefing at the camp, then the two desert activities run in rotating batches so half the group is always seated and looked after.
  • Jeep safari — six per jeep with a sighted escort in each, everyone seated inside, across the open dune ridges.
  • Camel ride — one handler leading each camel and an escort walking alongside, on a short flat route. You mount while the camel is seated, and the forward-and-back lurch is explained before it happens.
• Sunset on the dunes, followed by an unhurried folk music sitting — Rajasthani voices, khartal and dholak on open sand as the light goes.
• Back at the resort by 8:00 PM for dinner, then an early night.

Day 2 — 3rd October · Tanot Mata and Longewala

130 km toward the border, into the country's most-told war story. Carry your original ID.

• 8:15 AM — Breakfast at the resort, followed by a 9:15 AM departure for Tanot Mata Temple, roughly 130 km out.
• 11:30 AM – 1:45 PM — Tanot Mata Temple. Darshan, prasad, and the display of unexploded shells with the full 1965 story behind it told out loud.
• 1:45 PM — Depart for Longewala, about forty-five minutes further on, with lunch from 2:30 to 3:30 PM — a meal of authentic Rajasthani food on the route.
• 3:30 PM — Longewala War Memorial. Time among the tanks, bunkers and the aircraft display, with the permitted exhibits open to touch — one of the best stops of the trip. Guides describe dimensions and layout out loud. The open-air displays are covered first, while the light holds.
• 6:30 PM — Depart for Jaisalmer, with one tea and toilet stop en route.
• Around 9:30 PM — Reach the resort. Dinner is held back and served on arrival, then a relaxed night — Day 3 begins late.

Day 3 — 4th October · Havelis, Kuldhara at dusk, and the market

A late start, a long walk through the old city, and one abandoned village before the road home.

• 9:00 AM — Breakfast at the resort.
• 11:00 AM — Check-out and departure for the city. Bags are loaded onto the bus through the morning so that departure is immediate; the group does not return to the resort after this. The city is about 35 km east, roughly forty-five minutes. Patwon Ki Haveli, the restaurant lane and Sadar Bazaar all sit within a few hundred metres of one another.
• Patwon Ki Haveli — guided visit. The courtyard and lower rooms, with the intricate carvings, jharokhas and mirror work described as you go. The upper floors are reached by a narrow stone staircase and are visited in small batches.
• Sadar Bazaar on foot. Continue through the bazaar and the nearby market area, with opportunities to explore mirror work, block-printed cloth, jootis, camel leather, handicrafts and textiles.
• Lunch.
• Kuldhara Village. The flat central lane and the restored houses, with stops at the dry-stone walls, doorways and thresholds while the guide tells the story of how the village emptied overnight.
• Final headcount and luggage check. All participants return to the bus.
• 7:00 PM — Depart for the return journey. The bus leaves the city from the Jodhpur-road side, already positioned in the right direction for the overnight journey home.

Ready to come with us?

Seats are limited to 30. Open the registration form to join the expedition.

Road timings may shift. Please do not book onward transit on exact timings.