One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.

 Rohtas fort has total 12 gates. It is spread in quite huge area with scattered buildings thus each and every place needs to be describe and non of the place here can be ignored. I am trying to cover some of the gates in my post.  The first gate is known as  " Khwas Khani "  mean the "Gate for the specials", indicating that it was used by emperor and his special army men. This gate is the main entry to the fort but you have to keep driving through this gate until you reach to the parking lot inside the fortress. Inside the fort area lots of houses have been made by the local people, quite enough to be called as a small town.  After parking you may either walk towards " Shah Chand Wali  "gate or towards  "Sohail gate ". The choice is yours. On the left side of Sohail gate, there is "Rohtas Fort Museum" but I couldn't visit the museum because it was closed for visitors. But I was told by the guide that inside the museum has certain ...

Sher shah suri or the "The Lion King" was a capable Pashtun military leader. Though he ruled for short period (1540-1545)  just about five years yet he made many improvements to the exisiting setup of those days plus made different reforms to the administrative setup especially revenue administration. He built roads along with side areas for the rest, where travellers could stay and rest. He dug wells at different places known as "Baolis" . One such well which is named as " Losar Baoli" situated in Wah Cantt, i have earlier mentioned in my blog. for pictures and details click here: http://kiranpalwasha.blogspot.com/2011/10/well-reminding-glory-of-mughual-empires.html  Here in Rohtas also present such three wells. stairs leading down in the well EmperorSher Shah also built the longest highway in south asia. Infact the Grand Trunk Road that leads to Rohtas now adays from Islamabad-Lahore was originally structured by Sher Shah Suri. Rohtas...

There are no palaces in the Rohtas Fort except for the structure built by Raja Maan Singh called the Haveli of Maan Singh ( Maan Singh Palace). It is built on the highest point of the fortress. Its not the original part of the fortress.On the whole this fort is built in Afghan-Persian style but the balconies have Hindu architecture and same balconies can be seen in Haveli Maan Singh. Haveli Maan Singh back side of Haveli Maan Singh  Broken structure of Rani Mahal (Palace of Queen)   So far its unknown that whats exactly the cause of destruction of these buildings. Though its not the result of natural calamities , however archeological investigations have begun now to reveal the facts.