Grand Hotel Amritsar

Queen's Road, Opp. Railway Station Amritsar, Punjab, 143 001, India

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Punjab

A travel blog entry by emmaandpete

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After another overnight bus journey (this time much more comfortable, and far cleaner), a long wait at Delhi train station and a 7 hour train journey (complete with AC, lunch and a couple of games of travel Scrabble), we arrived in Amritsar in Punjab, the home of the Golden Temple, the most holy Sikh temple in the world. The Grand hotel was ok, and …

Border Madness in Amritsar

A travel blog entry by lydsandemmet

The golden temple, colourful turbans, life in Technicolor...all of a sudden I'm having a Darjeeling Ltd moment, where I have stepped into the India of my imagination.

There is loud music as we enter the shaded entrance to the temple. Tourists and pilgrims are queuing alike. There is something very menacing about the way the Sikhs look, I' …

Silly hats and glowing temples

A travel blog entry by malariamonday

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Posted by Genevieve

We made our descent from the Himalayas into the steaming hot plains of the Punjab. Treating ourselves to the luxury of a taxi (at $50 for a 6 hour drive it was hard to turn down), we arrived in relative comfort. On our way in we saw young Sikh men in orange turbans rushing up to buses and trains with cups of water and …

Pomp, ceremony and holy humility

A travel blog entry by missemilygray

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500-year-old Amritsar (meaning "pool of nectar") is the Sikh equivalent of Mecca; their holiest place on earth, and home to the famous Golden Temple. After my time in hectic Delhi, I was looking forward to the tranquility of this spiritual nexus. Imagine my disappointment this afternoon when I emerged from the station after my first Indian train …

Golden temple

A travel blog entry by missemilygray

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After a failed attempt to find the free pilgrims' shuttle bus at the station, I decided to take a cycle rickshaw back to the Golden Temple this afternoon and found one waiting outside my hotel, its chauffeur an elderly, twinkly-eyed Sikh who introduced himself as Mr Massa Singh (most Sikhs are called Singh, which means "lion"). He looked sprightly …

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