First Time in CHANDIGARH 🇮🇳 Solo India Travel Vlog: Sukhna Lake, Rock Garden, Sector 17, Elante Mall

In this Solo India Travel Vlog, I explore the city of Chandigarh. Chandigarh is known as one of the most well planned cities in all of India! It's also the capital of both Punjab and Haryana states. Chandigarh is known for being very green and an easy place to walk around. I took a train here from Rishikesh after doing yoga in Rishikesh for a month, so this felt like the first Indian city I actually got to solo travel and explore! I started at my hotel in sector 8 and walked over to the hedgehog cafe. It was an adorable cafe full of books and good food! While it was more expensive than I was used to in Rishikesh, it was still a great cafe! After there I walked up to Sukhna Lake. The lake was so busy, maybe more so because it was Sunday? I wanted to take a boat on the lake, however I wasn't allowed to get a pedal boat alone and the shikara boats weren't going on the day I visited...so I had to pay 450 Rs for the big 'luxury' boat across the lake with other people. It was actually a really nice ride! We went the whole way across the lake and it was cool to see all the people hanging out around the lake during the daytime. When I got off the boat I walked 15 minutes along the main road to the Rock Garden. It was a really nice walk as there were lots of people out and people biking along the bike paths. I even saw some people go by on a camel ride! Once I arrived at the rock garden I was happy to see that tickets were only 30 rupees for an adult - the same price for both locals and foreigners. I bought a ticket and spent the next 30ish minutes exploring the rock garden. It as a really cool place! It was very busy when I was there, but I was still glad I went! After the Rock Garden I continued walking down to the Rose Garden. As I visited Chandigarh at the end of January, there weren't many roses in the Rose Garden, but normally there are over 40,000 plants there! It was a really nice garden full of flowers, fountains, and no trash anywhere! I walked the whole way through the Rose Garden and arrived at Sector 17 - the city center of Chandigarh. After exploring the pedestrian area of Sector 17 for a while my phone died! I didn't want to be out after dark without a phone so I ran back to my hotel to charge everything before my final stop: Elante Mall. I ubered to the mall where I ended up having an amazing pasta for the first time in the month I'd been in India. The following morning I went to another cute coffee shop next to my hotel so I had to take a video because it had the best cinnamon roll ever! Then I jumped in another uber to head up to Kalka and get ready for the Kalka-Shimla toy train! I had a really amazing time exploring Chandigarh! It's such a nice city. Hopefully next time I'm there I can actually rent a bike!!!
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00:01 Chandigarh Intro
00:49 Map of Chandigarh City
01:34 the Hedgehog Cafe in Chandigarh
02:19 Chandigarh Bike Share
03:12 Sukhna Lake
04:07 Buying Boat Tickets
04:37 Boarding the Luxury Boat
05:40 Camel Ride in Chandigarh
06:07 Rock Garden Chandigarh
07:13 Waterfall in Chandigarh
09:22 Rose Garden in Chandigarh
11:07 Sector 17
12:18 Back at My Hotel
12:39 Elante Mall
13:59 Third Wave Coffee
14:34 Heading to Kalka

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