My Hometown Chandigarh — Best City & Perfect Tourist Destination of India

Shaina Ratwal
3 min readJul 1, 2016

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Chandigarh also known as “City Beautiful”, a city dwelling on the prehistoric site of the Harappan Civilization, is a cutting edge city of Punjab. Moreover, it is the capital of the state and became possibly the most important state after the liberation of the country when Lahore, the previous capital of Punjab turned to be a part of Pakistan. The city is also the capital of Haryana and is amongst the modest bunch of Indian urban communities that are capital of two states.

It is administered by the central government and authoritatively is not a piece of both the states. It is a cutting edge city loaded with each part of modernization. The city is in some cases called the “Pensioner’s Paradise” for the way that there is an extensive number of government workplaces. It is one of the top urban areas amongst the Union Territories and apparently has the most noteworthy per-capita income.

Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh

The city shares excellent connectivity with all neighboring cities and states, accessing it is an easy task. The Chandigarh railway station is the main railway station in North, under Central Indian railway network, and is served by successive trains. Trains are the economical way to visit the city and are preferred by numerous people. The good thing is that there are various hotels in Chandigarh near railway station like Sun Park Resorts which is a 3 star hotel and provide best accommodation services and amenities at a very reasonable price. Such hotels and resorts are perfect choices to pick if you look for the comfort of convenience and connectivity.

Chandigarh takes pride in being the first well planned city in India and still replace various modern cities in terms of design and rendering the design into reality. Le Corbusier, a famous French designer expert designed the city. Before him, Albert Mayer and Maciej Nowicki were working on the city’s plan. But, due to some reason they had to suspend their work in between.

Rock Garden Chandigarh

The French architect totally rejected the old plan and built a new plan. There are numerous structures, landmarks, and different structures outlined by him existing in numerous parts of the city. The Open Hand monument is his signature landmark, and there are numerous Open Hand landmarks of different sizes at various parts of the city. The biggest of all is 26 meters in height and is located in the Capitol Complex range. The city utilizes the landmark as its emblem and as a medium to spread the message of “open to give and get”.

Chandigarh as a visitor destination offers a plenty of chances to savor. It is a piece of Tricity circuit, which is a well-known tourism circuit in India’s tourism. Panchkula and Mohali are the other two sections of Tricity. The best tourist attractions in Chandigarh include:

Rock Garden

Zakir Hussain Rose Garden

Valley of Animals

Sukhna Lake

International Doll Museum

Garden of Silence

Japanese Garden

Government Museum

Nada Sahib

Art Gallery

Butterfly Park

Morni Hills etc.

Being a well-connected city, getting to any place of Chandigarh is very easy. One can enlist proficient travel guides or essentially go alone. Moreover, some Chandigarh hotels likewise offers travel services to their visitors.

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Shaina Ratwal

I’m Shaina, a Chandigarh native, with a serious case of wanderlust. I love traveling and sharing my travel experiences with the people.