Kamru Fort — the 1000-year-old wooden tower that still crowns Bushahr kings.
Most Sangla visitors photograph the Baspa river and Chitkul road without ever climbing the 20-minute path to the wooden tower visible above the village. They miss that Kamru Fort is the original capital of the Bushahr dynasty — the kingdom that ruled Kinnaur and Shimla from roughly the 15th century until 1947 — and that even today, every new titular king of Bushahr still has to come to Kamru for his coronation (raj tilak) before any ceremony at Rampur is valid.WHY NOBODY KNOWS
Kamru Fort is a 5-storey wooden+stone tower roughly 1000 years old built in the Rajput pahari-shikhara style — extremely rare survivor of pre-Mughal wooden temple architecture in the Western Himalaya. The fort houses a 15th-century Badri Vishal Ji (Badrinath) temple on the upper floor with a wooden idol of Lord Vishnu, making it one of the very few Vishnu-pradhan shrines in an otherwise Shiva-dominant Kinnaur landscape. The Bushahr royal family's tutelary connection means that even after the kingdom's formal end in 1947, succession rituals continue here. Photography of the temple interior is restricted; the head priest performs the raj-tilak ceremony.
