Chandigarh

Chandigarh is very reminiscent of Canberra.  A planned city, neat and well maintained.  Not your usual idea of India.  It is affluent and is the capital of two states.

We only had time to look at Nek Chand's rock garden.  He was a public servant who used protected land to secretly built up a garden using recycled stuff - from pottery to old electrical fittings to bangles!  By the time it was "found out", it was too good to lose.  It reminded me of the story of Wendy Whiteley's secret  in North Sydney - she gradually developed Railway land into a beautiful garden, and it is now protected.

Kin mun is standing in front of a wall of old, broken electrical ceramic fittings.  A bit like the old insulators we used to have.  Close up here:

Us in front of more old stuff

You would go through an archway to the next surprise.

Like this. Kin Mun and our guide.

Some pavilions were all little statues.

These were made from bangles.  They appealed to me the most!

This was the main attraction in Chandigarh.  There were museums and an art gallery, but we didn't have time.  There was another long drive to Shimla ahead of us.