Hotel Ranvir Prime Jalandhar

I reached Jalandhar on 18th at 5:30 pm and checked in Jalandhar Guest house ( not recommended ). At 7:30 pm i was jumping and plunging on the chicken Kaaba's and butter roti. The food in the city is mind blowing.<br><br>Today 19th Sept i will be leaving for Vaishno Devi ...

... cause "billa (local Mechanic)" told it will do 400-500kms. Finaly we arrived at the Birth Place of "Khalsa" Anandpur Sahib. History of Anandpur Sahib : Anandpur Sahib is a holy city in punjab. Its historical significance to the Sikhs is second after Amritsar. Hundreds of Sikhs once embraced martyrdom here. Sikh history is deeply marked by their struggle for survival in a volatile land, especially during the peak of Mughal persecution under ...

... things were still the same..although the taxi driver didn't try and rip me off?! On the way to my hotel I saw an accident involving a truck and a cow..needless to say the truck looked worse off..then in the pouring rain i see an elephant walking along the road!!! welcome to India i think..... Anyway the next day I leave for the Punjab....for home.....Not seen any of my family for ...

... at Basti. It was quite and emotional goodbye, I think the time I spent here will change my relationship with the family forever. We went over to the sign place and picked up the finished thing, it looks really nice and it was well worth the money. We went to Model town next, Arun said he would be going to Jaipur soon to visit Ajay so I wanted to get some thing for Yoyo and send it with him. I got her a little teddy bear, but when we went to the office to drop it off, Gauthem wasn't ...

... there I brought 30 mtrs of wire for the satellite TV, it's one of the reasons the guy recons we haven't got a decent signal (we have no signal now!). I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening finishing the recordings. I had a call from the travel agent in Jalandhar telling me she couldn't sort my ticket out and that I would have to ring the Delhi office myself. I did just that and a couple of calls later I got a result, they have ...

... the go-ahead. Although I thought the price was reasonable Arun thought we should get a second opinion so we went to another place, this guy said he couldn't confirm a price till the morning but it would be around RS1300 to 1500. On the way back to the office we stopped at a Paanwala, Arun had a fag and brought me a Strawberry flavoured Paan, the last time I had a Paan was in Jaipur with Ajay, anyway the Paan was delicious, it was more like a ...

... had the bike Jet-washed, this meant water got into the system somewhere and it took about 30 minutes to start it afterwards. It started misfiring, the indicators and the horn also stopped working... why do I bother! We got back to Pind around midday and I left for Jalandhar at 1pm. Pawan and Meetu (Darshan Uncles Kids) were leaving to go back to the UK tomorrow, so I thought I'd go and say goodbye. I first went to ...

... standing around playing musical instruments. The stage backdrop had a picture of the Dalai Lama and it said 'a concert celebrating 70 years of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's life'. I went up to one of the guy's playing an instrument and asked him about the place (all the people were just wearing regular clothes by the way). He told me it was an institute for Traditional Tibetan Arts, student from all over India come here to learn about Tibetan music and dance so they can then go ...

... still gutted about that), he said he could get the same ones I had for Monday so I will go back to check them out, I hope they are the same because I really want another pair of them. We came back to Pind around 6pm. My eye was still in a bad way so Soma and I went to Nakodar to get some medicine. We got there ok but on the way back the bike gave up on us, it just kept cutting out and it died a death in the next village to ours. I had to ...

... if they make it to Kathmandu, the UN can issue them refugee permits... or turn them back. This is a slight digression, but we listened to one monk talk about his own trip through Nepal, during which he and several other members of his group were shot by Nepalese officials - the police can get good money either from the Chinese government or Tibetans in Kathmandu in return for handing them over... Sad). Luckily, Tsering and her group made it to Kathmandu without being caught ...