The Rock Garden in Chandigarh

Submitted by Pam Baker on Mon, 2005-12-05 14:27.
The Rock Garden in Chandigarh

We are heading off again tomorrow, for Lucknow this time, for Dave to visit a Dental Hygiene School. We may not make any enties for a few days. So here are some phtos from one of the major sites of Chandigarh: the rock garden. We were expecting a rugged landscape and flowers, but, no, this rock garden is really a sculpture garden made completely of trash. It has been built continously since 1988 by a road inspector named Nek Chanda. Its difficult to describe the size and scope of this. We were there moving through it for over an hour and only saw two-thirds of it. It ranges from huge waterfalls to ledges with several hundred individual statues of people or animals. This photo is a bridge, covered in broken pieces of ceramics. Dave just happend to catch the photo when a sweeper woman was walking across.

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