Chittorgarh

Is was a midday stop on a 8 hour drive from Udaipur to Bundi.

This is the largest Fort in the world and was known for its mass suicides upon the capture of the Fort of the women and children. Over a 1000 years old, during the 16th century, it was besieged several times and fell after the invading armies just cut off their food supply! All the food for the 90 thousand people in the Fort was grown on the outside of the Fort and was susceptible to being cut off.

One story that was also retold here was that when the Fort was under siege the invading king wanted to see the queen as he heard how beautiful she was. Finally, starving, the king invited his invader into the Fort to see the queen, however via a ‘mirror’ in a tower while she sat on the balcony of the palace that sits in the lake. E invading king wasn’t too impressed and eventually took the Fort. The queen took her own life rather than be captured!