While visiting India, the country offers you with a unique set of places, some are hill stations while others are decorated with ruins from their past,but none of them be it even the capital city of India Delhi, is as efficientlyplanned as
Chandigarh, the capital of two state Harayana and Punjab as well.
The roads in the city are clean and tidy with absolutely no signs of hawkers at the street side, which is a common phenomenon in most of the tourist spots of India, the entire city is divided neatly into 26 sectors and the houses are strictly made in accordance with the rules and regulations of local municipal corporation .The unique feature of the houses lie in their similarity, one cannot recognize a particular house unless he or she has the house number with him. Smoking is prohibited in most of the places and pollution is controlled with iron hands by the authorities, the max speed limit in the city is 60 km/hour and no Michel Shoemarker can race the town under the eyes of local traffic police without escaping a good fine.
Chandigarh is well connected by air and has its private airport having both domestic and international flights running to and fro by it.Railwaylines love the city and nearly all the trains like to spend some time at its platforms. By road it becomes another key destination for tourist leaving a Himachal tour.
Accommodation in the city is as good as it gets, a couple of miles away from the city is a unique resort called Parwanoo, situated on top of the hill is well
known for its rope way, the place is clean and offers sweet and other rooms at affordable prices, the restaurant tennis court and children amusement park are added feature and not only this you can also check out the gift shop of the resort down hill it offers some of the pleasant souvenirs to take back home or you can also taste churans the local digestive sweet made of tamarind awala and bhel. There is yet another restaurant down hill you can try your hands upon.
Among the
tourist hotspots Chandigarh offers is Sukhna Lake or popularly known as lake view which provides awesome boating experience. You can easily get a paddle boat and can paddle around with your beloved for an hour or two in the clean waters of the lake or if you are with family an option for hiring an entire rowing boat is best suited for you. On the banks you will be amazed to see the skills of local sketchers who for a much price of 3$ will make your moment freeze on their paper canvas the exercise takes around five to ten minutes. And is a good value for money.
Another key destination which you should check out is Rock Garden which is a beautiful place made exclusively out of debris and waste products of our houses, it is an enormous park and people are stunned to see the beauty out of garbage in the park. The rock garden was made to motivate people to keep their environment clean and also to promote the idea of recycling. It takes at least 3 hours to complete the tour of rock garden if you are running in it, do not forget your cameras as you will get great spots over here to click a few pictures over here.
Rose garden is yet another place for a traveler to spend some times among the hundreds of beautiful varieties of rose, the place is aromatic refreshing and is great one to spend some time with your family or your lovely wife or girl friend.
Sector 16 is entirely dedicated to shopping freaks, the entire shopping centers and shops are neatly dedicated to this sector, you can buy anything from here be sure to visit this part of the city to have a complete shopping experience.
Mac Donald and Pizza hut are near the sector 16 only and will serve you with hot and ready to eat pizzas and burgers in case you are dead tired after the
shopping frenzy, be sure to taste idli at coffee house while shopping around sector 16.
Chandigarh has though still many places to offer tourist who want to spend a week at the place, but for those who need to cover a few more places in that
time period the 4 places mentioned are a complete crash course for an ultimate experience at the planned city of India called Chandigarh.
