Janjira fort, Murud

                                         
Remainings of a palace inside the fort.
Backside of the fort, seen from one of the canon vent.
Inside of a hall, made up or varying sizes of arches.

Three main canons, once used to patrol the main entrance. All of them remains cold even kept for all day under burning sun. Far right one is the third largest canon discovered in India.
Excellent view of fort entrance and shore line, from the highest part of the fort.
Halls of the ground floor used to be the store room for food grains. It needed to be huge enough to keep large amount of ration for people staying in the fort.
Escape root or emergency exit just beside the store halls.
Clear water of the sweet water lake.

Entrance of the fort which can only be seen from near distance. It was a strategic point to conceal the entrance of the fort from Maratha soldiers.
Temple and Mosque in the same frame inside the fort.
Most of the inside fort is destroyed now. But still sowing its old days glory.
Smaller of the two sweet water lake inside fort.
People carried by these beautiful huge boats from shore to fort.
Canon facing the old days enemies.
Larger of the two sweet water lakes inside the fort. This lake is situated in the center of the fort.

Inside one of the room.
Entrance gate.
Entrance gate, hardly been traced from far.
People travelling by boat to the fort.



Its one of the many forts in Maharastra. Build inside shallow waters of Arabian sea. Most amazingly it was not created by great Shivaji and having two big sweet water lake inside it.