Saini's magical realm is spread across an area of nearly 40 acres. As you make your way through the narrow passages between soft-curved boulders and ranks of human and animal statues, hundreds of sculptures, including a forecourt with many chambers and a 'king's throne' greet you from rock formations, grottoes, waterfalls, canals, bridges, theaters and plazas that Saini began building more than half-a-century ago.
The Rock Garden exhibits innumerable life-like figures of a variety of animals, birds and humans. They are all fashioned out of trash and they inhabit their creator's surreal world. An arm is nothing but a piece of an old porcelain toilet bowl. A hat is actually a broken teacup.
There are houses and paths, shops and shrines, trees and vegetation that form a miniature village.
Nek Chand Saini was born on Dec. 5, 1924, in a family of landlords in Berian Kalan village (now in Pakistan) about 90 km north of Lahore. The geneses of his magnificent garden kingdom go back to his childhood when he would dream of "legends and magical realms" and "put things together".