While visiting the villages we based ourselves in nearby Chandigarh, which is a Central Government-administered city and serves as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana, two of India's most prosperous states. Chandigarh was designed by the "renowned" architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s. It's a quiet, kinda boring place, low-density with wide avenues and overly spread out. Still, it offers a more relaxing, Westernized kind of feel compared to the hustle and bustle found in most other Indian cities. One of its few genuine attractions is this psychedelic "garden" called the "Nek Chand Fantasy Rock Garden." A mishmash of human-created landscapes made of recycled junk and lots of concrete, "bizarre" is about the only word I can think of to describe it.
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