[Recap] WorldWide PhotoWalk Chandigarh

DheerajV · January 30, 2018, 8:13pm

Namaste my dear LG friends.

Finally I had my first meet-up on 24th of Feb 2018, all thanks to @AlejandraMaria for creating this global event.

I reached at the Le Corbusier center at 1:45 pm, we had total of six interested attendees out of which one @AbhimanyuC came.

We waited for others to join us and made an announcement even on my Chandigarh meet-up.

Funny thing is I started asking every person, whoever was coming to this place, “are you a local guide”.

Having no experience in hand I had no idea about how to move this event ahead.

After sometime we both decided to get in and get started.

Although I have been in this city for a while but I visited this place myself for the first time.

It looks a small single story building from outside. There is no visiting fee, we only entered our details in the visitor register.

This place used to be the workplace of Le Corbusier and his team, where the entire city was designed. And now it holds an important historic value.

We went to the various rooms which was filled with the drawings, pictures, documents and furniture related to the creation of this city.

To my surprise I learnt that this city used to inhabited by ancient Indian Civilization known as Indus Valley Civilization which dates back to around 2000 B.C.

And being separated by time I can say that there is one common similarity in both that is

Both of cities are well known for their impressive, organized and regular layout.

We saw the picture of Goddess Chandi on which the name of this city was kept.

First open hand gesture which is now the symbol of this city.

He along with his team have built one of the best engineering marvel (picture of model above).

Like there is an open auditorium with no mikes/speakers and it is designed in such a way that

when a speaker speaks from the platform his voice is audible to every side till the person sitting on the last corner.

We shared some basics knowledge of google maps.

And after spending around three hours we concluded our meet-up.

It was a good experience to meet our fellow LG members in person.

Below are some more pictures of our meet-up, I hope you like them

–

Regards

Dheeraj

HelloSamsonR · January 31, 2018, 1:08am

This is incredibly awesome @DheerajV . Thanks for joining in. All the best and success for your meetup ahead. @AlejandraMaria here is another fantastic meetup from India.

AlejandraMaria · January 31, 2018, 6:10am

Hello @DheerajV ,

Congratulations for this interesting meet-up.

We can see you really like Chandigarh and through your photos we will see how good was planned :))

Just added to the list of the " World Wide Photo Walk Meet-Up, Showcase the Beauty of your City to the World"

Thank you very much for your participation.

Regards from the South of Spain.

Alejandra.

MahabubMunna · January 31, 2018, 6:18am

@DheerajV best of luck

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 6:47am

Thanks for the wishes @HelloSamsonR

I am really excited for this meet up as it is my first.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 6:52am

So nice of you @AlejandraMaria

I will send you lovely pictures of Chandigarh and I will be looking forward for your guidence as this will be my first meet-up.

If there is anything you feel like sharing regarding this meet-up please let me know.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 6:53am

@MahabubMunna brother

Thanks for the wishes.

deepakjhic · January 31, 2018, 10:04am

Hi @DheerajV ,

Well I’ve been in Chandigarh for a meet-up with @RohitSadana at Sukhna lake. I can not confirm but I’ll try my best to join you guys. I’m tagging @Prdeep here.

Thank you for this meet-up.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 11:39am

Oh great

That’s good to know @deepakjhic

I will be positively waiting for you since you have rich experience of your meet-up.

What say you @RohitSadana and

@Pardeep1

I will keep you updated on this.

NareshDarji · January 31, 2018, 11:45am

Many best wishes for your first Meetup dear @DheerajV

All the best for great time and enjoy your day with fellow local guides.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 11:47am

Thank you brother @NareshDarji

Can you tell me how can I inform other LG family members residing at my city about this event

NareshDarji · January 31, 2018, 11:51am

Hi @DheerajV

You can share your event via FB, WhatsApp group. Local Guides community on Google plus in your area. You can invite your friends to join this event and also introduce them about local guides program.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 11:55am

Ohh we can invite non LG members too that’s great @NareshDarji

I don’t have any poster or LG logo…

Do I have to print something?

NareshDarji · January 31, 2018, 12:17pm

Not required to any posters or logo @DheerajV

If you want to print some material you can download from the local guides website.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 2:31pm

Okay @NareshDarji

I will check the website.

DheerajV · January 31, 2018, 3:32pm

Hello @ShobitDawer

I saw your post Exploring the soul of Chandigarh. Sukhna Lake (India).

I would like to draw ur attention to a meet up planned in Chandigarh on 24th Feb 2018.

I would like to invite you to this event and would like to join in.

Kindly let me know if you are interested.

Regards

Dheeraj Verma

RohitSadana · February 1, 2018, 1:37am

@DheerajV

@deepakjhic

First of all

All the very best for the meet dear friends

On 24th its saturday

Will try to attend, if it was sunday, i was 100 percent sure to attend

Anyways no probs

Will love to see U Alll…

Regards

DheerajV · February 1, 2018, 4:38am

Thank you for the reply @RohitSadana

Your and @deepakjhic presence will surely make a difference.

And will be egerly waiting for you.

ThanulakshanS · February 1, 2018, 7:17am

Congrats @DheerajV

DheerajV · February 1, 2018, 7:26am

Thank you @ThanulakshanS