Gingee Fort visit
As usual Ram does a neat and prompt job of describing the place we visited last weekend and putting up some good photographs of the visit. You can find them here.
Since I had visited the Golconda Fort earlier this year in Hyderabad, I had assumed that climbing the Gingee fort will require almost the same effort. It turned out to be false; it took almost an hour for us to climb up and around 45mins to get down. Also, I couldn’t climb the entire fort in one go (since I had also driven from Chennai), and had to take breaks in between. Though this fort is huge (situated on 3 hills spread in a large area) and has more buildings when compared to the Golconda one, I must say AP tourism has done a far better job in maintaining Golconda. They even have a light and sound show in the evening for the tourists. Its Gingee counterpart on the other hand is hardly maintained. The only person manning the fort seems to be the guy at the ticket counter.
- Trips | Time: 8:56:47 PM (UTC+8)
Its nice to see that you are climbing such places
Comment by Subbaraman — November 2, 2006 @ 9:59:21 AM