Last updated: October 2026 · Method: built from published site information and recurring traveller reports; figures approximate, verify on site.
📄 Image slot — a polished brown stone slab showing a fossilised tree ring.
Shops across Jaisalmer sell polished slabs and orbs of brown stone with visible tree rings, fossilised wood from the same Jurassic deposits the Akal park protects.
Buy, but read this first
- What it is: petrified wood from the fossil beds, cut and polished locally, some from old quarry stock, some of murkier provenance.
- The legal line: India’s antiquity and fossil-protection rules restrict export of protected palaeontological material, small polished decorative pieces are commonly sold and carried, but check the current customs position before planning a suitcase of slabs.
- The ethical line: buying cut-and-polished stock from legitimate workshops is the defensible version; anything implying freshly-collected park material is not.
Price logic: small paperweights and coasters are the honest budget; a heavy slab needs freight paperwork, not courage.