Tuesday 1 November 2011

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Pinjor Garden


Location

Chandigarh Shimla highway, 20 kms from Chandigarh at Pinjore, Haryana

Accessibility

Bus Services, Cabs – Easily reachable by road.

Visit Timings

 7:00 AM to 10 PM. *Timings are subject to vary.

Garden Ticket Fee

Rs 20 per person. The Garden Fee is subject to change.
Chandigarh,  is surrounded by numerous beautiful places that serve as ideal destinations for excursions. The Pinjore Garden is one of those  places that has emerged as an important tourist attraction that one can visit when on a holiday to this city or is going towards from Chandigarh to Shimla.
Chandigarh Pinjore Gardens, also called Yadavindra Gardens are 20 km from Chandigarh, 15 km from Panchkula, on the Chandigarh Shimla national highway number 21. Taxis and buses ply regularly between Pinjore, Kalka, Panchkula and Chandigarh. 
The fascinating Mughal Garden (now popularly called Pinjore Garden) cover a total area of 100 acres. A mini zoo, plants nursery, a Japanese garden, historic palaces and picnic lawns await tourists. Especially at weekends, fountains are switched on and after dusk, lights pick up the beauty of the palaces by night.
Nawab Fadai Khan, a great architect and foster brother of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is said to have designed the idyllic gardens. He planned the Gardens on the classical Charbagh pattern, giving the area a central water way. Both sides of this waterway were covered with patches of green bordered with flowers and shaded by trees. He supervised the construction of the stylistic Sheesh Mahal (palace of glass), the Rang Mahal (painted palace), and the cube-like Jal Mahal (palace of water).
Like other Mughal gardens, this one also has a sloping ground and is decorated with fountains and grand and beautiful pavilions. There is a channel of water in the middle of the garden. The fountains are located inside this channel of water. There are walkways located on both sides of the channel.
Lined with huge trees and a stretch of green grass, these walkways add to the beauty, charm and elegance of the Pinjore Garden. If you walk straight down, you will arrive at a huge pavilion, which offers marvelous view of the entire garden. The pavilion also has a terrace with a water body located in the center.
Special programs are arranged at the Yadavindra Gardens for the Baisakhi (spring) festival in April and for the Mango Festival in June and July. The gardens have cool, shady walks and flagged pathways which run to the outer reaches of the creeper-covered walls. The end structure of the doorway has recently been made into a disc-like open-air theatre.

Monday 31 October 2011

Sector 17

Sector17 is the commercial center of Chandigarh, India having number of banks with their offices here. Sector 17 also has the ISBT of Chandigarh, it is a center for people of Chandigarh for their social gathering It is surrounded by Sec-22,Sec-16, Sec-18 and Sec-9.

 Sector 17 market

Sector 17 market is the most upscale and expensive place to shop in Chandigarh, housing retail outlets of many name brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, Levi's, Dockers, Adidas, Nautica, Puma, Nike, Reebok among others. The market is famous in the region for purchase of luxury goods. Some of the eating joints include Hot Millions, Sindhi Sweets, Sagar ratna, Ovenfresh, Indian coffee house, Cafe Coffee Day etc. Its increasing popularity has made it the most famous place in Chandigarh and the future shop-to place for even big brands like Versace, Armani, BVLGARI and Gucci.



Weekends 
The plaza in this sector is home to many events, tradeshows, and concerts. These are organized by Chandigarh tourism department.


Cinema Halls in Chandigarh

Chandigarh has Seven Cinema halls. Three in Sector 17 and one each in Sectors 22, 32, 34 and 37. Some of them were designed by the founder Design and Development team of Chandigarh. Like K.C. theatre was designed by Aditya Prakash who was the assistant of famous Architect Jane Drew. Cinema in Chandigarh is moving into new grounds with the authorities waving the green signal for conversion of existing cinema halls to multiplexes.
Picture of neelam cinema hall in sector 17

Theatre

Tagore Theatre (Sector 18) and Punjab Kala Bhawan in the Rose Garden are popular venues for music, dance and drama performances


Diwali Trend

Sector 17 in 2003, was the first place in Chandigarh to start prize-giving trend during Diwali season. Later, Sector 22, Sector 34, and Sector 19 also started it. The daily prizes included Mixer Grinders, Blenders etc. , while the mega prize included a Mahindra Scorpio, Hyundai Accent and Tata Safari. The mega prizes were changed every year after then. The initial response was outstanding as there were millions people taking part in the Big Game. Later, after 3–4 years, it started to fade out, and the 2007 bombings in various parts of india, proved to be a major reason that people started to attend it less. The prize ceremony officially ended in Sector 17 in 2006. The market was back to its normal self in 2007 and there were no prizes in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. However, the market association plans to officially bring back the Big Scene in 2011.

Rose Garden

Location: Sector 10, Chandigarh

Highlights: botanical garden
 
Zakir Hussain Rose Garden, is a botanical garden located in Chandigarh, India and spread over 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land,with 50,000 rose-bushes of 1600 different species. Named after India's former president, Zakir Hussain and created in 1967 under the guidance of Dr M.S. Randhawa, Chandigarh's first chief commissioner, the garden has the distinction of being Asia's largest.The garden has not only roses, but also trees of medicinal value. Some of the medicinal plants that can be spotted here are bel, bahera, harar, camphor and yellow gulmohar. The rose plants have been planted in carved-out lawns and flower beds.






Apart from serving as a host of other events, the Zakir Rose Garden serves as the venue for hosting the annual Festival of Gardens, a major cultural event of the city during the month of March. Celebrated mainly as a tribute to the magnificence of the rose itself, the attractions include food, drinks, joyrides, and contests of varying nature, such as photography, gardening, landscaping, bonsai, and Rose Prince and Princess. The contests are open to the residents or institutions from nearby places.

Sunday 30 October 2011

Sukhna Lake

Location: in the foothills of Shivalik range

Highlights:
manmade lake

Things to do: boating
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Sukhna Lake is a beautiful lake that lies in the foothills of Shivalik range. The unique thing about Sukhna is that it is a manmade lake. It is a 3 km long lake that was created in the year 1958. It was done by damming the Sukhna Choe, which is a seasonal stream flowing down from the Shivalik hills. Sukhana Lake of Chandigarh, India has become an integral part of the city



People visit this place in the morning to enjoy the cool breeze and the beauty of nature. Chandigarh Sukhna Lake serves as a great picnic spot and an apt place for pursuing water sport activities like boating, yachting and water skiing etc. The atmosphere over here is very serene and thus apt for meditating. Also, you can savor the melodious humming of birds. People come here in the evening time to forget their worries and relax for a while. So, if you want to rejuvenate yourself, then Sukhna Lake is the perfect destination for you.




The creation of the lake was one of the greatest gift from Le Corbusier and the Chief Engineer P L Verma to the city of Chandigarh. To preserve its tranquility Corbusier insisted that it be forbidden to motor boats and the top of the dam (promenade) prohibited to vehicular traffic. The lake is fringed by a golf course to the south, and Nek Chand's famous Rock Garden of Chandigarh to its west. 



New funds for development


Chandigarh Administration has finalized new plan for Sukhna Lake and New Lake in Sector 42 with Rs 2.73 crore which has also been received from Union Government.[3]

Due to silting which although has reduced in the last decade has taken its toll and now the volume of the lake from its initial one has been reduced to 56%. This year (2010) due to the onset of summers in the mid of the March there is some good news - the work of desilting can be undertaken at a war footing as most of the water cease to be there and dry dreding can be undertaken at a fraction of cost to save Sukhna in the coming years. There will be 6 months for the dreding to take place and simple earth moving equipments can be deployed at the regulator end to remove the silt which has dried up and the basin of the Sukhna is getting enlarged everyday.

Rock Garden

Location: in Sector 1 between the Capitol Complex and Sukhna Lake

Highlights: exquisite artwork made from industrial and urban waste

The Rock Garden or Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a Sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India, also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of forty-acres (160,000 m²), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items.


The garden is most famous for its sculptures made from recycled ceramic


Waterfall at Rock Garden, Chandigarh

It is situated near Sukhna Lake. It consists of man-made interlinked waterfalls and many other sculptures that have been made of scrap & other kinds of wastes (bottles, glasses, bangles, tiles, ceramic pots, sinks, electrical waste, etc) which are placed in walled paths.

In his spare time, Chand began collecting materials from demolition sites around the city. He recycled these materials into his own vision of the divine kingdom of Sukrani, choosing a gorge in a forest near Sukhna Lake for his work. The gorge had been designated as a land conservancy, a forest buffer established in 1902 that nothing could be built on. Chand’s work was illegal, but he was able to hide it for eighteen years before it was discovered by the authorities in 1975. By this time, it had grown into a 12-acre (49,000 m2) complex of interlinked courtyards, each filled with hundreds of pottery-covered concrete sculptures of dancers, musicians, and animals.

His work was in serious danger of being demolished, but he was able to get public opinion on his side, and in 1976 the park was inaugurated as a public space. Nek Chand was given a salary, a title ("Sub-Divisional Engineer, Rock Garden"), and a workforce of 50 laborers so that he could concentrate full-time on his work. It even appeared on an Indian stamp in 1983. The Rock Garden is still made out of recycled materials; and with the government’s help, Chand was able to set up collection centers around the city for waste, especially rags and broken ceramics.

When Chand left the country on a lecture tour in 1996, the city withdrew its funding, and vandals attacked the park. The Rock Garden Society took over the administration and upkeep of this unique visionary environment. The garden is visited by over five thousand people daily, with a total of more than twelve million visitors since its inception.
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