CHITRADURGA FORT Beautiful Forts and Monkey Man ,Just 200 Kms Away From Bangalore
Chitradurga Is About 200 Kilometers away from Bangalore City at the junction of NH-4 (Bangalore-Pune National Highway) and NH-13 (Sollapur-Mangalore National Highway). Daily buses and Trains are available to Chitradurga from Bangalore.
The impressive fort of Chitradurga , built on the north eastern base of a cluster of rocky hills, qualifying it to be a Giridurga, or hill fortress. Known as Yelu Suthina Kote, the fort is fortified by seven circular walls, three of which are on the ground and four on the hill. Chitradurga fort is said to have had 19 majestic doors, 38 smaller doors, 35 special entry points and four secret entrances. The fort is entered through four gateways of the outermost wall.
The foothills of the fort constitute the main residential area of the town. The Mel Durgas, forts on the hill are embellished with extensive fortifications, ramparts, bastions, batteries, watchtowers and entrances located at strategic points and house fourteen temples. Some of the fort’s important landmarks are Thuppada Kola Betta, Hidimbagiri, Zadaa Battery (Flag battery), Kahale Battery (Trumpet battery), Lal Battery (Red battery) and Nellikai Battery (Gooseberry battery). The main entrance to the fort, Kamanbhavi, has carvings of the seven – hooded cobra the legendary twin headed bird, Gandaberunda, the royal swan, Rajhamsa and lotus flowers.
It was not our direct trip to Chirtradurga, but we had a visit to Chitradurga while coming back from Hampi and Badami another Historical Touist spot of North Karnataka. We reached Chitradurga by afternoon and left the place by around 7 PM to Bangalore. An amazing sight was that of the Monkey man of the Chitradurga fort, who climps the walls of the fort every day bare hand. He has beed practicing this for several years and so hewas able to do this. Also there wre a lot of monkeys all around. He said like, he learnt th trick of climping from these monkeys.
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Video Of the Chitradurga Fort Monkey Climper Climping the Fort Walls
