Ginnorgarh Fort

The fort and the history behind it is very beautiful. If you are an history enthusiast, you must visit this beautiful place. There's a short trek before you reach this fort as it's on a hilltop and vehicles can't go there. The place is slowly-slowly turning into ruins, hopefully ministry of tourism of MP will look into this before the situation becomes irreversible.

The place is very beautiful and iconic. The trek is also really good it's only of about 400m which is a very walkable distance. The best time to go is after rains and on a cold sunny day.nnJust a note - those who are going for the first time, you need to take a guide and a ticket to enter the forest. (The place to take the ticket is around 5km before the spot to enter the forest.) And yes you can take your car upto a certain distance in the forest and then you have to go up the distance walking.

Ginnorgarh was occupied late in the Paramara period, as testified by architectural fragments incorporated into the current structures, but the location first rose to prominence under the Gond rulers.n[1] The palace may have been constructed by Nizam Shah, a powerful Gond warlord. The building is one of the gems of Indian palace architecture, close in style to the Kharbuja Mahal at Dhar fort.n[2] After Nizam Shah was poisoned by his nephew, the chief of Chainpur Bari, his widow Rani Kamlapati and her son took refuge in the fort.n[3] The queen sought protection from Dost Muhammad Khan who became the de facto ruler of the state. With Kamalapati's death in 1723, her son Nawal Shah took charge of the fort. Dost Muhammad Khan then organised an expedition to Ginnorgarh from Bhopal and was able to take the fort by stealth.nThe presence of the rulers of Bhopal at Ginnorgarh is testified by later buildings and an inscription in Persian on one of the gatehouses dated 1725–26.n[4] By the early twentieth century, C. E. Luard recorded that the buildings were falling into ruin.n[5] Despite being a protected monument under the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Madhya Pradesh, the structures continue to decline and have been vandalised.

Little unknown place only trackers will know this middle in the jungle and if you are lucky as i am you will see tiger also...

For outing it is an good place, luckily we saw tiger in forest ,guide is good to take they have knowledge to take to correct place to visit.