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Summary
After traversing a landscape punctuated by wild forests and lakes, it suddenly materializes, crowning the summit of a hill. It is the highest elevation in Rajasthan, after Mount Abu, with a thick wall encircling it like a python. It is evident that the Maharana Kumbha’s aesthetic sensibility favored unabashedly big, bold, and beautiful structures. Ram Pol, the fort’s main gateway towers overhead, the palaces are perched at lofty heights, and even the footrests of the Indian-style toilets inside are so wide apart that a grown man would have to strain to squat comfortably. But nowhere is his personal style more flamboyantly displayed than the crenelated ramparts that weave whimsically through remote Aravalli forests for an astonishing 36 kilometers. The wind around the rim of the hilltop is enclosing a large expanse of wooded hillside. Outside this perimeter, plunging down the hill into the deep valley below, are the dense jungles of Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, where wolves, leopards, and panthers reign.