Hoping for a different kind of Indian city - I was avoiding Delhi cos I thought it would be too stressful. I decided to go to Chandigarh as it's one night away by train and it's maybe more interesting than typical Indian cities as it is custom designed by US/French modern architects. Things Get Bad - Train sucked - no chance of a berth The TT said - crowded in standard class . By 11pm I had a seat but too hard to sleep. Arrived at 6am and snoozed .. Wisely took breakfast at the station. First thing was it's 8Km to the center. Sat - Then Things get worse - It took 5 hours to find a hotel - This was a different world after the bargain off season prices of Rajastan. Hotels were double the price of the guidebook and then usually full anyway. There supposed to be free Siikh ashrams, which I didn't want to stay at, but when I trekked to one they said "now foreigners need permission from the government department " ..well it being Saturday that's impossible - Cos the town is spread out with large boulevards. I had to walk along way between hotels and use a tricky bus system. It was 12:30pm before I checked iinto the dorm at the bus terminal transit hotel. It cost double what I normally pay $4 instead off $2 and 30 people in the room and II could see frrom the way a bag off tea was open that someone had opened the locker and been in my rucksack .. Of course there's nothing in my bag to steal. Sat - Explore - They have a cheap bus tour, but I decided to walk - 1. Shopping mall .. Spreadout concrete plaza exactly like Million Keynes. - 2. Museums Complex - History of Corbustier and the city - not great - walked up to the Parliament building which is cordened off from 250m away so nothing to see. Then High Court also nothing to see. - Then to famous Neck Chand's rock sculpture garden. Crowded and tacky. A one way path leads you through valleys and grottos all made from waste material he gathered while managing road construction. - I walked 1Km south to the reservoir. There there is a promenade offering views north across to the foothills of the Himalayan states. Took ages to get any transport back to town. Talked with French tourists. Best town in India, but I still didn't like it - After all the other untidy haphazardly built towns iin India I expected to like this thoroughly designed, thoroughly modern city, but it sucks in other ways. - It's made up of 1Km blocks each supposed to be a self contained town with it's own shops etc. But this means the city is too spread out . As a tourist I had to walk big distances between sights, which is especially bad in the summer heat. It's flat so characterless. I suppose that apart from transport problems it's suburb like feel with real houses and small apartment buildings it's probably the most comfortable city to live in India, especially if you have a car. Sun- hang around doing internet - I'd seen the whole town so it was logical to move on. The only other place to visit was the mountain towns of Manali, but it would mean a 15 hour bus journey north & coming back the same way so I decided against it. So I would have to finally go to Delhi and finish my India trip. - Since Delhi was a nightbus journey south that meant today was just an internet work day. But it took 3 hours to find a reasonable internet café. The owner insisted I take a toffee and My bloody tooth crown broke off ughh ! No - transport to Delhi - "No need to book a bus they leave every 30 mins 24 hours.", my hotel man said. At 10pm the bus station was chaos, but when I woke at 1pm it was still the same. - At first I was calm ,but the only way to get a bus was to run to a bus as soon as it arrived and fight your way on. .. So I did.