Type                       Kenjalgad is Hill a fort.    

Difficulty level       Kenjalgad is Medium to trek.

Height                     Kenjalgad Fort is 4269 feet(1301 Meters) above sea level. 

Base village / District / Taluka -  Asre, Khavli / Satara / Bhor, Maharashtra, India.

Kenjalgad or Ghera Khelanja Fort 4,269 feet above sea level, is arranged on the Mandhardev division of the Mahadev range 11 miles north-west of Wai. It is a level-topped slope of an irregular oval shape, around 250 yards in length and one hundred yards wide at the extremes, looking amazingly solid both from a far and close.

In any case, climbing it is discovered to be bad by the Yeruli Asre and Doicivadi levels around two miles to the east which effectively rose from the Wai side and the Jambli slopes around a mile to the west.

The fort structures a town in itself however must be climbed from the towns of Asre or Khavli which lie at its foot on the Wai side. The rising is by around two miles of an extremely steep ascension or the Asre-Titeghar join way can be taken after for two miles and afterward a decently simple way leads due west from the pass an alternate mile onto the fort.

The fort is a dark scarp climbing vertically from the principal edge which is hog-backed. The scarp is one of the most elevated in any of the Satara forts and reaches in places eighty to a hundred feet.

The main pathway is on the north side up a set of a hundred steps running parallel to the line of the scarp till inside four or seven feet of the top when they transform at right points to it and cut straight into a section driving on to the top.

The steps are unconventionally forcing and contrasting from any others in the area. Accordingly, on entering, the scarp is on the left and there is nothing on the right till the section is arrived at, and trespassers rising would be at risk of being thrown once more over the precipice. At the foot of the steps is a bastion which apparently bordered a door.

There are remnants of six huge and three little buildings, all present-day. The head-quarters or kacheri is just stamped by a substantial fig tree. The main building completely conspicuous is the powder magazine on the west which is around thirty feet square with solid stone walls three feet thick and seven feet high and three feet of block on the top. The walls of the fort were initially of extensive square cut pieces of stone, however were a short time later added to in numerous spots.

They are in many places completely four feet thick and including the bulwark around eight feet thick. There was a parapet of lighter work for the most part demolished. The fort has three huge water tanks around forty feet square and six little ones for a capacity of water and grain.

Anyway, there is no living spring inside the fort. The biggest tank is in the southern face and is truly thirty feet deep. The tanks were exhausted when the fort was destroyed by exploding the external sides which were structured by the bulwarks and letting the water void itself down the slope side.

On the west is a kind of nose projecting past and a little lower at the principle edge of the fort, likewise clearly sustained. There is a thin path on the edge at the foot of the scarp and on the north side is a large cave with amazing water and halfway utilized for capacity purposes.

The town lies around 300 feet below the ledge of the northern slope slant. To its quick west is a thick temple, trees of jambhul and anjan. The town of Voholi, on the north side of this range, the tenants of which were a piece of the genetic battalion, is in an empty to the north-west.

Khelanja fort is said to have been assembled by the Bhoj Rajas of Panhala who prospered in the twelfth century. Its amazing quality was recognized by Mr. Elphinstone who says it could hardly be taken if unfalteringly shielded. The firearms on the Kenjalgad stronghold opened fire before surrendering to the separation sent by General Pritzler up the Wai valley on the 26th of March 1818.

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