Chittaurgarh Fort

The last 3 weeks has been spent here in the Land of Kings where I have been lucky to see some beautiful temples, palaces and forts, step in a open sewer, have a bumpy camel safari and more!!
As the tourist season is coming to an end and the heat is intensifying places are becoming a little more deserted

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... The 28-sq-km site sits on top of a 180m hill that rises abrubtlyout of the surroundnig plain.  To get to the fort we drove through 7 gateways up the zigzag road.  Once inside the complex there where palaces, gates, temples and the enormous ...

We went on a minibus tour, to see the fort on the hill which Chittorgarh was famous for. Three times in history the fort had been defeated by Moslems and each time jauhar had been resorted to, in which all the women and children immolated themselves in ...

... rani Padmini. The fort has checkered history, it has witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in history. The antiquity of Chittaurgarh is difficult to trace, but it is believed that Bhim the legendary figure of the Mahabharta, visited this place to ...

Although this town should be known as shittaugargh, not Chittaurgargh, it has a superb, huge fort. Don't stay the night ...

just a day trip from udipur - a frigging huge ...

... in the place we where staying it was standing room only. So Jodhpur for the second day and it was off to another fort called Meherangarh fort which this time comes with an audio tour which is very helpful as you know what the hell you are looking ...

... stayed tolerably cool as long as I didn't stop cycling. After checking into a convenient and cheap hotel I cycled up to Chittaurgarh Fort, an enormous complex of temples and ruins overlooking the city and the largest fort in India. There were simply too ...

... me back. From Bundi we once again travelled second class (the only seats we could get) to Chittor, where there is a massive fort. The train was only moderately crowded, Anna sat cross legged in the upper 'seats' (which I guess are theoretically for ...

... days of sat on a roof doing yoga. They seemed to be having a good time and no doubt will tell their friends how brilliant India is. How much of it they saw and understood is dubious. But God bless their little yoga selves. There was a cultural dance ...

Drawing a line between Udaipur and Ranthambore took me to Chittaurgarh.   I started the morning almost missing my train--but then I now have a story to tell!   The station master stopped a train for me--what a power trip!  I was ...