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From Green To Gold: How Jaisalmer’s Desert Changed My View Of Nature

After a lifetime surrounded by green mountains, a journey to Jaisalmer reveals a different side of nature. In the desert’s golden silence, shifting light, and vast openness, beauty takes on a quieter, more expansive meaning

The Khaba Fort, Jaisalmer Photo: Ahmed Mir
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I had always imagined nature in shades of green. For 25 years, growing up in the mountains, my world was defined by forests, meadows, and flowing streams. Green felt complete, like it held everything nature had to offer. That belief stayed with me until I travelled to Jaisalmer last month and encountered a landscape that reshaped my understanding entirely.

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