Nekchand Fantacy Rock Garden - Chandigarh (Chandigarh)

The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a unique sculpture garden, by internationally acclaimed artist Nek Chand, who was a road inspector in the city Public Works Department when he began to transform a dump of discarded building materials. The Rock Garden was first opened to the public in 1976 and charmed by millions of tourists. This garden spreads over in 64 acres of area. The tourists are led through a maze of paths, chambers and canyons, each presenting a glimpse of a fantasy world. The first phase of the Rock Garden is a small canyon natural parts, albeit peculiar, rock forms, and part amalgam of broken ceramic fixtures, pebbles and coal slag. The canyon opens into a series of chambers, each one filled with scores of human and animal forms in concrete and broken ceramic or glass. Each one is different. The second phase of the Rock Garden recreates a mountain village on the banks of a stream, its inhabitants, some humble, aristocratic, sensed rather than seen. The garden remains open for public from 10.00am to 7:00pm all the days except Thursday.