Country Inn Suites Jalandhar

So I managed to attend a family wedding whilst I was in north india. I took the train to Jalandhar, in the heart of Panjab, and I knew I was on the right train when I saw all the panjabis at the train station!<br><br>The thing about indian trains is that for entertainment they ...

... proved a total success. Only once the procession of the Guru was intercepted by Mughal army but answer of Nabi Khan and Ghani Khan was so convincing that no suspicion was raised by the Mughal soldiers Thus Gurdwara Machhiwara has became a place of pilgrimage. upto this day people remember the two Pathan brothers Nabi Khan and Ghani Khan with great respect as they risked their lives in serving the Tenth Master. It was late afternoon when we ...

ok...so I'm back home now, but I'm going to finish this anyway... Neetu and I took a cab up to Amritsar (which I now realize is only 30km from the Pakistan border...) this is were the Sikh Golden Temple is. As we were driving I think almost every member of Neetu's family called to see if she had seen the Golden Temple yet! We took off our shoes and make our way across the marble, through a stream of warm water and ...

... ticket was confirmed on Thursday, and the guy had told me only two hours before that I would get it in the evening, by the time we got there I was number 91 in the waiting list, great start! It looks like I'll be going on the bus again! next we went to model town to find out if I could get the anti malaria tablets I have been taking, I managed to get one of the two tablets, Aruns brother is a doctor and he thinks the ones I couldn't get are not that important anyway. Things ...

... were selling were second hand or refurbished units, and of course when I quizzed him on the subject he denied all knowledge! It took them another half an hour to find a receiver that actually worked, he then sent us home with the new/second hand receiver and told us to connect it up and see if it works. We got back to Pind at 1pm, and yes it was bl**dy hot! I connected up the receiver and still nothing, I rang the guy and he said he would have ...

... I stopped off at Lakha's along the way and got here around 6pm. Went straight to the office and checked my mail. I had sent an email to everyone about updating the site a few days ago, and dropped a comment on it about lack of emails from people. I had loads of reply's to deal with, it was quiet funny to see people making excuses for their lack of contact. After the office I went to Neel Kamel and ...

... I go. It was gone 7pm by the time I finished and put the bike back together. That gave just enough time before dinner to sit on the sewing machine and repair my small rucksack. Oh and in between all that I found time to put some pictures on the wall for my Thai. It's been a busy old day, and I'm feeling the effects. My right calf muscle is sour after spending 30 minutes trying to start the bullet yesterday, hopefully I won't have to do that again for a while!

Day 184 Thurs 11th May 2006 On the hunt for a car. I got up at 8.30am so we could make an early start and get to Jalandhar while it was still cool (well as cool as it gets this time of year). I awoke to find my right eye had swollen up over night and I couldn't open it (see pic). I have no idea what caused it but it's quite painful, but I soldiered on defiantly. It was still around 10am by the time we left for Jalandhar, The three of us ...

... impossible at worst. We didn't do much. The second day I bought a suit. A fancy Punjabi suit for the wedding. The first price quoted was 9000 rupees, 300$ Canadian. When our host and bodyguard showed up the price was halved. This scenario was repeated on several occasions India is not a country for tourists, but for travellers. And there is a difference. If I can give one piece of advice...hire a driver, a translator. It's worth the effort and will solve most headaches. . .

... Dalai Lama are banned and peaceful protest is violently repressed. In the last 50 years, tens of thousands of Tibetans have fled overland to India seeking religious and political freedom. We heard many stories from ex-political prisoners (some in person at lectures, others from documentaries) of brutality in Chinese prisons - water torture, cattle prods, solitary confinement, being forced to kill animals (against Buddhist beliefs), renouncing the Dalai Lama... All of this for ...