Delhi - A Must Visit Place - Red Fort

I was longing to write this blog from quite some time. I and my family visited Delhi this August, We stayed there for 1 week, I should say I enjoyed every moment at Delhi. From my experience I felt it requires at least 15 days to see most prominent places in and around Delhi. Delhi is a wonderful place particularity for people who love to visit historical places, see museums, visit famous places of worship,see the parliament,Rashtrapati Bhavan and do lot of shopping. There is so much to write that I will not be able to cover everything in one article so I will just write about red fort in this article.

The Red fort is one of the must visit places in Delhi. Red fort encloses many prominent structures such as Diwan-i-Aam, this was the court of the Mughal Emperor where the Emperor and his ministers used to meet the common man. This is the place where the famous peacock throne was installed for Shah Jahan. However this throne was taken away by Nader Shah to Persia during later years, after the rule of Aurangazeb. The other well known buildings in Red Fort are, Moti Masjid built by Aurangazeb, Jal Mahal, Hava Mahal, Diwan-i-Khas, and Rang Mahal.Most of the buildings inside Red Fort are built from marble and are bright white .The fort is built on the banks of Yamuna , and there used to be facility in the fort to make the water stream flow into Rang Mahal from the Yamuna river. People say that many pillars of the Rang Mahal ,Diwan-i-Khas etc used to be studded with gold but today we can hardly find any.


Diwan-i-Aam at Red Fort


Canals where Yamuna river used to flow through Rang Mahal and Diwan-i-Khas


Shweta next to a very beautiful work on the pillars of Rang Mahal


Hava Mahal , one of the palaces built by Emperor Bahadur Shah


Shweta in front of Jal Mahal


Moti Masjid at Red Fort, Pic is downloaded from WiKi

Many parts of red fort are under the control of army and some palaces are closed for the visitors hence one cannot see whole of red fort,even then it will take at least half a day to enjoy the beauty of red fort. I will not mind spending days together at red fort. The laser show at red fort is worth watching.There is also a museum of the Mughal's present at red fort,one has to go early too see the museum, the museum closes by 5.30 PM I guess. However Red Fort remains open till 7.30 PM and after that the laser show starts. There is also big shopping area as one enters red fort where one can buy lot of traditional goods at affordable prices [ this depends on the bargaining power of the buyer :) ].


Night Vision of Red Fort, Pic is downloaded from WiKi