Sunder Nursery

The Sunder Nursery landscape master plan includes a range of pathways for walkers and pedestrians, aimed at ensuring that most areas of the park are universally accessible and all visitors can make the most of this oasis in the heart of the city. Divided into several monuments, gardens, water bodies, lawns and ecological zones, Sunder Nursery has a wide gamut of attractions to offer to every visitor to the Park.

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The pedestrian entrance zone sensitively and aesthetically leads the visitors to Sunder Burj, a UNESCO World heritage monument.

By restricting the vehicular traffic along the peripheral road, the Park provides a safe and secure environment for the visitors.

Following all the safety protocols especially during the covid pandemic, the Park provided a safe refuge to the citizens in the outdoors

Barring the wilderness zone which has narrow undulating pathways, majority of the Park is wheelchair and children-pram friendly

These pathways are essential part of the design providing access to natural areas and connection between different zones of Sunder Nursery

The Sunder Nursery landscape masterplan includes a range of pathways for walkers and pedestrians. Quartzite stone pathways around the monuments, sandstone pathways along the central vista’s gardens of delight, trails in the wilderness zone and even stone chip and concrete pathways.

These pathways are designed to improve the connectivity within the park as well as ease out pedestrian congestion on the existing central pathways

Creation of pathways has limited the vehicular traffic to the periphery, providing a safe playful environment especially to to the children.

UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation

In 2020 the path network north of the lakes was built by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and in 2021, the entire planned network of pathways should be completed. The scenic walking trail takes walkers across a range of pathways and stunning sights. Walkers are requested to use these pathways and not the vehicular road that runs along the edge of Sunder Nursery.

Some of our environmental workshops and events are:

Sunder Nursery Tree Walk
Sunder Nursery Tree Walk
- Delhi’s first arboretum with almost 300 tree species
- Some of these trees are their lone species in India
- Over 80 bird species and 60 butterfly’s species found here
- 45 rare tree specimens found in the Park
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Blooming Flowers Walk
Blooming Flowers Walk
Birds of Sunder Nursery
Birds of Sunder Nursery
- There are over 80 varieties of birds seen in the Park
- Patience in bird-watching will lead you to rare spotting of Ultramarine Flycatcher
- Wait and watch near the Lake at the Northern end
- Take a stroll along Rivulets in the Wilderness Zone
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Monuments’ Walk
Monuments’ Walk
- Walking through the Six UNESCO World Heritage Monuments
- Garden of Delight around Sunder Burj
- Lakkarwala Burj sitting amidst its Rose Garden
- Experience the high craftsmanship of these Mughal monuments
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Delightful Gardens Walk
Delightful Gardens Walk
- Hasht Bahisht garden layout of Sunderwala Mahal
- Enclosed Tomb Gardens of Mirza Muzaffar Hussain
- Secret Garden of the 17th century Mughal Pavilion
- Azim Bagh in the forecourt of 16th century Azimganj Serai
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Developing the Pathway Network

Before the commencement of landscape development works at Sunder Nursery in 2007 , the park had a criss-cross network of roads and pathways. The masterplan divided the area into three distinct zones: Heritage experience, Nursery functions, and Wilderness Zone. Based on the design, the pathways and road network were laid out keeping in mind the type of visitor movement intended in that area, and being sensitive to the surrounding area. Most of the park is wheel-chair and children-pam friendly, except for the wilderness zone where the pathways are narrow and irregular to provide an experience of moving through dense vegetation.

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