This is a curious pagoda-shaped tower that arrests one’s attention on arrival. It rises in tiers, five stories high, the balcony of each storey beautiful carved and the whole finished with the curiously shaped chhatris that gives it a far eastern look. This tower was added to the new palace which is still the home of the former ruling family. The tower was built free of cost by muslim craftsmen in the shape of a tazia and gifted by them to their royal patro. Tazia are ornately decorated bamboo, paper and tinsel replicas of a bier carried in a procession through the streets during the muslim festivals of mourning, known as Mohrram. The tazia tower looks like one of the fragile, finely-made paper tazias translated into the sandstone of Jaisalmer. Truly a gift for a king.