Chandigar

The next day we headed off to chandigar, the capital city of Punjab, and an interesting place because its was a planned city from the ground up, designed by some swiss architect or something. It was unlike any other Indian city that we went to, it was organized with huge outdoor shopping malls and redundant architecture that made it super easy to get lost despite large maps everywhere with breakdowns of each sector that were organized numerically…it was like out of some science fiction novel or something…a little impersonal to say the least.
There were lots of western corporate stores like nike and shit and girls that wore tight pants and modern fashions and good book stores and all that. The largest rose garden in asia was there, and was very pleasant and romantic being spring and all. It was a great place to go to reacclimatize to western living right before the end of our trip and I think it worked, considering how smooth the re entry was on this occasion compared to my southeast asia trip.
The most note worthy thing about chandigar though was this colossal rock garden that some nut started building over fifty years ago all from salvaged materials. The place is enormous and intricate and bizarre, with beautiful waterfalls, narrow passage ways, massive mosaics, swings, thousands of sculptures, and about a million pounds of concrete. It was a real fantasy land…nothing like ive ever really seen…insane and genius and fun, all at the same time.