Hotel la Cascade Amritsar
52, R.B Parkash Chand Road, Opp. Police Lines Amritsar, Punjab, 143001, India
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First Impressions
We finally arrived in Amritsar at the hotel at about 8:30pm, after a 20 hour train journey, which should have been 16 hours, but we were delayed yet again. One hour of the 4 hour delay was due to being held outside of the station for no apparent reason. Amritsar is a pretty place, which differs to other areas where we have visited as it is more open and 'green', unlike other parts ...
Comme un Sikh à Amritsar
... cependant pas une seconde.
Voilà sans aucun doute l'une des plus belles étapes de mon voyage.
Lecteur fais attention, ce billet est -encore- plus long que d'habitude... C'est ça d'attendre d'être rentré pour écrire !
Le Sikhisme, une religion ayant marqué l'Histoire de l'Inde
N'étant pas forcément tous très familiers avec la religion Sikh, permettez-moi de faire un petit aparté culturel.
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Amritsar - A contact sport
... so the streets were crowded with people all heading in the same direction.
Before going inside the temple we all had to cover our heads and remove our shoes. So, kitted out in orange headscarves we made our way in. It really is an amazing place to have seen. The Golden Temple itself is surrounded by holy water, then a quadrangle of buildings which house any pilgrims who want to stay overnight, and at one end is ...
Amritsar
... Once inside, there are the Sikh men reading from their sacred texts from dawn to dusk which is broadcast through the whole complex. The devotees come through and pray, throw money, give offerings and sit and read from little bibles. We couldn’t take photos inside the main temple, but it really was a sight to behold.
The most amazing thing about the Sikhs is that all of their temples have community kitchens. This one caters for 40,000 people per day, or up ...
Losing it all, right before the finish line
... me to see the sunset border ceremony. Every evening members of the Indian and Pakistani military hold a 30-minute parade showing off their high kicks and marching skills trying to outdo each other while being applauded by visiting countrymen. It was a close call getting in though: somehow I managed to miss a critical bit of information stating that bags were not allowed. There I was, being held back and separated from the queue, while all ...



