L.O.S.T

I kept walking inside the palace without thinking where Shobhit and Jeetu were. Landed inside a stranded room and felt a bit dizzy. When I looked around, I could see no one else. It was me all alone there. I traced my steps back and came out of that room and started looking for both of them. 

Found out that they were busy shooting each other(not with the gun, but with the camera). Here are some pics.

They both were busy making each other's portfolios and I decided to leave them behind and move ahead inside the palace as I wanted to explore every corner of it. 

Once you reach at the top of the palace, you feel like you have conquered the world. The view is so beautiful that it would force you to sit there and enjoy the strong winds along with a mesmerizing view and you would think about the heard history of the place.

That is what I did and the camera was with these two buggers who were busy posing for it and getting clicked. Here are some illustrations :P

I was sitting at the highest point of the palace and could see both of them busy clicking each other like the newly weds do. After sitting there for 15-20 minutes and gulping a lot of water, it was the time I go down and relax myself in the grounds in front of the palace. So, I started stepping down carefully. Some of you might think that I'm exaggerating the situation when I stepped at a lower level, the entire place seemed like alien to me. I just could not figure out where to go and tried various exits in that chamber. After failing 2-3 times, I was able to figure out the right way that brought me on the main entrance of the queen's palace. 

Both Jeetu and Shobhit was still busy clicking each other. I gave a shout out to them

Me : Abey salo, bas karo be, main jaa raha hoon neeche, wahan garden main milta hoon.

Shobhit : Abey, bas hum bhi aa rahe hai.

Me : Ok, aa jao, main chala, wahi pe milte hai.

 

So, I stepped down from the queen's palace and started moving towards the main gate from where we entered the Bhangarh palace.

I came back and parked my ass on the grounds of Bhangarh under a tree. I was dead tired and it was hot. 

 Soon, shobhit came back and the first thing that he asked for was water. 

Behind Shobhit, Jeetu came with a plastic bag full of fruits which I asked him not to bring along because of the following facts
1. You won't feel that hungry because we all hogged on Gol Gappas
2. No need to carry that extra baggage with you. Who would carry them.

And the third untold thing were the Langoors out there that gave us a tough time while we were sitting there in those gardens.

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The B.H.A.N.G.A.R.H

Well, so much has been heard about the place in recent times, that is intriguing and makes people think about it. We were about the step into the domain of Bhangarh palace, but before that we thought to click some pictures.

So, as soon as we stepped inside, the gatekeeper saw the camera in our hands and straightaway he slashed a receipt of Rs.25 as the fees for taking the cameras inside the palace. AFAIK, you cannot use tripod inside the place. As we started moving towards the site, I saw a board saying that Bhangarh has been declared as the place of national important by A.S.I (Archaeological Survey of India). I was happy to see that and continued to move on. Shobhit and Jeetu were busy seeing the place and clicking. Here are some more pictures.

And passing by various ruins we reached the gate of the main palace.

There behind both of them, you can see the Bhangarh palace. As you go inside these gates, you get to a beautiful temple with mesmerizing carved stone work. Jeetu showed his photography skills and clicked some pictures of both the temples that are in the area on opposite sides of the palace. 

Personally, me and Shobhit are not very satisfied with the photography skills of Jeetu, but now we have no other option but to use these pics in this travelogue. I wish I had the camera in my hands. Never mind, one must learn to adjust.

So, after seeing both the temples, it was the time that we enter the palace. But, before that something very interesting could be seen there. Showing it in pictures. 

You can read about Kewra here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewra

So, after seeing these Kewra gardens, we headed towards THE HAUNTED PALACE OF BHANGARH. Here are some more pictures of the way that took us inside the palace. 

It is a hard job to traverse the path, that takes you inside the palace. The angle of inclination is around 40-50  degrees which makes it very tough for a monster like me to go uphill and see the beauty.

This time, Bhangarh was bustling with people. So many students and families could be seen visiting the place. Some students were shouting at the top of their voices and were disturbing the whole mood of the place. I got very furious seeing the condition of the place as visitors have littered around the whole place. You can see beer cans, plastic bags and many other things dumped here and there. We Indians, we have this habit of screwing up every heritage site and it was very evident there. Well, nothing can be done regarding this. So, we started moving on and after sometime , I could see that I was all alone in the palace and couldn't figure out where Shobhit and Jeetu were. 

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