This garden is situated 5 km below Kalka on the Ambala – Simla road at the foot hills of the Himalayas in the area of 25 hectares at an altitude of about 600m.
The garden was laid out by Fidai Khan, the foster-brother of Aurangzeb in the 17th century.
It is one of the best preserved gardens of north India and is famous for its beauty.
The garden is divided into terrace and provided with six gates.
This garden is enclosed by an embattled wall. The main gate is at the highest terrace while the remaining five appear in a descending way.
There is a central water channel and tank with numerous fountains, water falls from one terrace to the other and finally into the tanks.
On other side of the central channel the paths are paved. Along these paths there are flower beds, trimmed hedges, rows of bottle palms and many other ornamental shrubs and trees.
There is a good collection of mango, litchi and sapota.
Three magnificent buildings of the garden are the Shish Mahal, the Rang Mahal and the Jal Mahal.
Maharaja Yadavindra Singh collected wide variety of ornamental plants in the garden
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