Patwon ki Haveli
Five houses built by one trading family, their yellow sandstone facades cut so fine the screens look like cloth.
- Where
- Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 26.9163, 70.9146
Get the Patwon ki Haveli stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Patwon ki Haveli. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Rajasthan volume with your photos and a note.
Near Patwon ki Haveli
Jaisalmer Fort 0.5 km
A living fort of golden sandstone: a quarter of the town's people still live inside its walls.
Gadisar Lake 1.2 km
The city's water supply, and its ghats.
Bada Bagh 5.0 km
Royal cenotaphs on a ridge, with windmills behind.
Thar Desert 11 km
The great desert of the northwest, shared with Pakistan, where the dunes shift and the villages do not.
Kuldhara 14 km
Abandoned in one night, and never resettled.
Desert National Park 25 km
Three thousand square kilometres of sand and scrub holding the last few hundred great Indian bustards on earth.
Khuri Sand Dunes 31 km
Quieter dunes forty kilometres from Jaisalmer, where the villages still build in mud and cow dung against the heat.
Sam Sand Dunes 42 km
Forty kilometres from Jaisalmer, where the Thar stops being scrub and becomes the dunes people picture.
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Questions
Where is Patwon ki Haveli?
Patwon ki Haveli is in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Jaisalmer Fort (0.5 km), Gadisar Lake (1.2 km), Bada Bagh (5.0 km).
How do I get the Patwon ki Haveli stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Patwon ki Haveli and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Rajasthan volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Patwon ki Haveli before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Rajasthan volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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