Visited Nek Chand's Rock Garden today. Here's a little Wikipedia excerpt: "The Rock Garden project was secretly initiated by
Nek Chand around 1957. It was discovered by the authorities in 1975, by which time it had grown into a 12-acre (49,000 m
2) complex of interlinked courtyards, each filled with hundreds of pottery-covered concrete sculptures of dancers, musicians, and animals. The authorities took over, and the garden was inaugurated as a public space in 1976." Like the rest of Chandigarh, the garden shattered my expectations. I was expecting some cute little folksy pottery sculptures and a waterfall. After four hours of wandering, I discovered it was so much more. Everything is constructed out of recycled materials. It is now over 40 acres. There are small tiny spaces that you have to bend over to get into or through and huge mammoth spaces that make you feel really small. Waterfalls that make you stop dead in your tracks. Big Swing sets. More pics to come ... downloading is slow as usual.
Visited Nek Chand's Rock Garden today. Here's a little Wikipedia excerpt: "The Rock Garden project was secretly initiated by Nek Chand around 1957. It was discovered by the authorities in 1975, by which 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. The authorities took over, and the garden was inaugurated as a public space in 1976." Like the rest of Chandigarh, the garden shattered my expectations. I was expecting some cute little folksy pottery sculptures and a waterfall. After four hours of wandering, I discovered it was so much more. Everything is constructed out of recycled materials. It is now over 40 acres. There are small tiny spaces that you have to bend over to get into or through and huge mammoth spaces that make you feel really small. Waterfalls that make you stop dead in your tracks. Big Swing sets. More pics to come ... downloading is slow as usual.
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