Chandigarh
Travel Blogs from Chandigarh, India
The rock garden
... rucksacs from the roof before the bus drove off presumably to a waiting troop of blind chimps to undergo more running repairs. Chandigarh occupies the unique position of being the capital of both the Punjab and Haryana. It was conceived in the 1950s ...
Un-Indian
· Chandigarh, Punjab, India · GMT +5:30hrs 'symbolic to the future of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, and an expression of the nation's faith in the future' - Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first post-British leader on his vision for ...
Stone Garden, Price Gouging and Gay bars
... I said, we finished our beers and left the park. We finally managed to get into a truly local bar. Behind many bottle shops in India, there are bars that will let you sit down and drink what you buy up front. They have snacks, music, tele, and will even ...
Artistic Revelations
Touted by the LP as the cleanest and greenest of all Indian cities, Chandigarh was a little disappointing. If you're in rush, skip it...though it's interesting to see Le Corbusier's urban planning skills and visit the pretty cool (yet ...
Winging it northwards
... rain. Managed to lose a flip flop under a bus (and rescue it again) and accidently caught the crap bus to chandigarh (though it handled speed bumps at top speed surprisingly well). Sorted out my being polite to strangers problem and have learned that ...
Delhi to Chandigarh
... the road, this way either you can pass them or they you without any dramas. Well so much for today’s excitement. It’s great I couldn’t think of a better way to see and experience India than traveling on these roads and seeing local ...
In Chandigarh
... . Mommy says it is always hard for her to leave Chandigarh as it is her favorite place in India. April 21: Still in Chandigarh, enjoying family. Aunty had sent some seedlings for Vade Amiji and we planted those this morning. ...
Trip To Nain Devi
... navratra time, so i decided to pay homage to one of the most revered site of Devi's, THE NAINA DEVI. Situated about 125 Km's from Chandigarh, i thought it would be nice idea to plan a trip in such a way that en-route i could visit and pay my respect to ...
White Power
hey guys, sorry haven't had much time to post. we went to chandigarh on the weekend. it's supposed to be the cleanest city in india.. we were actually surprised by the difference in air pollution and the number of trees - although still nowhere near ...
Rock garden photos
finally a few photos of the Rock Garden, have lots and lots more. Claire I'll send you a cd when I get home!! ...
Day 11 and 12
... after watching Cape Fear and just chilling in the luxury, then headed to the bus station to head to Chandigarh... Chandigarh is supposedly India's cleanest, greenest city. Our first impression was not exactly in line with this however. Getting off the ...
rock garden and an armed guard
... open but the director wasn't in and they didn't expect him all day. So we had to go to another office Chandigarh is the most planned city in india - all blocks and uniform streets so it was relatively easy to find if a tad longer walk than ...
Chandigarh
Joe and I jumped on the 6.00 am Himalayan Queen this morning - destination Chandigarh.The city was designed by Le Corbusier and it's stylish and spacious - very easy on the senses after a week in Delhi's most frantic quarter. We've found a great budget ...
Spiritual Stay
... After our first Indian bus experience (about as fun as the Chinese ones, but with more off road excursions!) we arrived in Chandigarh, a 1 night stop before heading north. We didn't expect much, but we liked our short stay here. The place was designed ...
Back Home
... to spare, so I bought a book that I liked and had wanted. I read it there and on the plane. Then, over Chandigarh, there was a really bad thunderstorm, and we had to reroute to Delhi. We waited in Delhi for about 2-3 hours, before we ...
Toy Train
... of the line for the toy train on schedule and then transferred to a ''normal' train for the 40 minutes or so to Chandigarh. I had reserved a seat expecting the usual full Indian train - on departure there were about half a dozen people in the carriage! ...
Chandigarh
... autre ; Chandigarh est un territoire d'union administrée par le gouvernement fédéral, représenté localement par un Administrateur. Chandigarh est née de la volonté de Nehrû de créer une nouvelle capitale pour le Penjab, province mutilée par ...
Kulu – Chandigarh (265 km)
Early 6.30 am start as this is a full days ride, although this section is mostly good, (by mountain road standard), it is also in a more heavily populated area, which means there is a lot more traffic on the roads to contend with many turns and ...
la ciudad mas cara de India, pero muy linda
....a ver si llegamos hoy Viajamos unas once horas en autobuses locales para llegar a Chandigarh y lo logramos! este viaje no solo conto con un chofer que conducia en forma alocada a los bocinazos puros, sino que ademas tuvo un aditivo interesante...el ...
Chanders
... nearby bar of a plush hotel, before retiring back to town for some jars in the City Heart 2 amongst other places. Chandigarh is a rather unique Indian city, designed by the Frenchman Le Corbusier, and planned much like Islamabad, along right angles with ...
Day 59 - Chandigarh
... now for well over a month and not once have I lost my bike or forgotten where I put it... until now. Yep, you guessed it, Chandigarh has those things we all hate, the dreaded car park - one in each sector, and complete with parking wardens that were well ...
An Indian joke
As told to me by the 9 year old on the Toy Train from Shimla. There is a man and he is ill so he asks his boy to go to the chemist to get him some medicine. They boys goes to the chemist, finds the medicine and comes back home. He says to the man I have ...
We don't like cricket... We love it
... to Chandigarh. Built in the 1950s as a planned city with projects from the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is billed as India's cleanest and greenest city and is supposedly a modernist masterpiece of town-planning? Milton Keynes ...
Chandigarh - India's Milton Keynes
... ', to realise the dream of a new state capital city symbolic of the glorious future which lay ahead for India. The result is Chandigarh. For the most part, Chandigarh displays all the familiar characteristics of a 'planned' city. There's the ...

