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[koshkha, 18/05/2008] One of the key tourist attractions in Chandigarh - a city that attracts very few international tourists- is the surreal and wonderful Chandigarh Rock Garden.
I live just up the road from the UK's oldest rock garden at Lamport Hall in Northants and I have been heard to comment that it looks a bit like a pile of builders' rubble covered in moss. Cruel and harsh perhaps, but I'm generally only joking. In the case of the Chandigarh Rock Garden, the joke would be on me because that really is how it started - as a way of recycling builders' rubbish.
The History of the Chandigarh Rock Garden
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[koshkha, 20/01/2008] If you tell an Indian that you are going to Chandigarh, theyl'l almost certainly recommend a trip to Sector 17, the city's shopping hub and the zone that's thought of as the 'centre' of the city. This is the sort of area that people come from all across the Punjab and Northern India just to stroll, window shop, spend their money and see and be seen. But how does it line up as a tourist attraction?
The thing that makes Sector 17 so unusual for India is that it has a multitude of big brand stores in shopping streets that look remarkably - I hesitate to say it - European. So if you ARE Europe
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[koshkha, 13/01/2008] Here's a quick multiple choice 'quiz' for any aspiring hoteliers.
Your credit card machine isn't working because the line is faulty. Two couples are trying to check out and you can't get the machine to work. They don't have enough cash with them to pay you. Do you......
A. Admit that it's your machine that's at fault and explore other ways they could pay you?
B. Apologise profusely for the inconvenience, offer to drive them to a bank and pay their costs for the exchange fees?
C. Threaten to call the police and treat them like criminals?
Not a hard one was it?
When one of the couples
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