A handywork of acclaimed artist Nek Chand, spreading over 64 acres, the garden consists of a maze of paths, chambers and canyons.

The Rock Garden has charmed millions of visitors, since it's first public opening in 1976, not only by the visual delights it offers but it's strange history. Nek Chand was a road inspector for the city's Public Works Department when he began to transform a dump of discarded building materials. He kept the garden a closely guarded secret, oblivious to the international acclaim it would bring him one day.  

The first phase of the rock Garden is a small canyon part natural, albeit peculiar, rock forms, and part amalgam of broken ceramic fixtures, pebbles and coal slag. The canyon opens into a series of "chambers" each one filled with scores of human and animal forms in concrete and broken ceramic or glass. Each one is different.

The second phase recreates a mountain village on the banks of a stream, it's inhabitants, drawn from various social classes are never seen but felt.