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Bhuli Bhatiyari ka Mahal or Lost Traveller's Palace is a Mughal architecture that has now turned been into ruins. Now surrounded with dense green forests, though this ruin has been restored still the age of the ancient Mughal architecture is quite visible. In the mid-14th century, during one of his summer hunting expeditions to the western periphery of the city, the Sultan of Delhi, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, became extremely thirsty. His caravan had exhausted its supply of water. At that moment, he spotted by the road a pretty girl carrying water. She seemed to have lost her way. At Tughlaq’s request, the girl gave him a draught of water. The king fell in love. He gave the girl, a member of the Rajasthani Bhatiara community, a shikargah (hunting lodge) he had built nearby soon after becoming sul
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