Discovering Delhi - Tughlaqabad Fort

If you want to know...you can surely find the factual description about this place in Wikipedia...but this one is mine...

But for now it was totally a new Discovery and yes worth paying a visit. Not very far from the Hustle-Bustle of Delhi, This place looks like a fossil of some giant creature once lived and moved. Scattered bones in some barren Desert. Its Old…rather Ancient. Older than the Old Fort.

I don’t know any History about this place, but its fascinating how big it is and how it must have been…lively with thousands of people some 700 yrs back. Standing in the middle of that place, even for a while if you try to imagine...its very difficult to imagine. There is hardly anything left…other than stones, walls and the over growth.

Well there are other animals who rule the place now. All you can feel is the presence of bats inside the underground corridors and the very obvious presence of Monkeys (rhesus macaque) controlling and guarding their territory within the fort. They are the real rulers there now. And off course there are other hidden animals. You see marks and signs of their existence and imagine them coming out at night waiting silently for their prey.

When you reach the rooftop or some old damaged Minar, on one side you ll see a monkey sitting on the highest Minar Patrolling and on the other side you ll see the guards with their sticks sitting and keeping a watch, and when you overlook you ll see new colonies merging into the fort. And on the opposite site you ll see the last remaining Jungles of Asola Wildlife Sanctuary.

It’s a nice place to go. Its worth spending a day there. Even if you go there without any expectations, you will surely come back with some questions. At least I felt it.

Paule'