Ista Hotel Amritsar
Adj Alpha One City Center, MBM Farms, Main GT Road Amritsar, Punjab, 102100, India
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Amritsar and the Golden Temple
We began our second day in Amritsar on a sobering note by visiting Jallianwalla Bagh, the site of the British army massacre of innocent Sihk worshipers. This was captured in the movie Gandhi when General Dywer opened fire on hundreds of Sihks with their families in a close area with only one way in, through a very narrow passageway which the …
Confessions of a 15 yr old independent traveller
These are a few extracts from the diary I kept in India when I was 15. I travelled independently, thinking I was ready and totally mature enough...Please excuse the profanities and pretentious sentiment...I hated almost every minute of this damned trip. God knows how I caught the travelling bug from this experience!
"It's day 14 of the …
Train to Amritsar, and the golden temple!
Another gorgeous hotel!! We're really getting spoilt rotten! How are we going to go back to travelling in budget accomodation??!
We all sit down to eat in the swanky restaurant and I'm starting to feel a little better and sample the hotels rice and yoghurt! We contact our friend Jamcoon and he joins us there - it's good to see him! and he …
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Amritsar
... starts a little later than we thought. After some street paranthas and chai we made our way to Jallianwala Bagh. Here we walked around and explored the site of the 1919 massacre of Indian citizens by the British. From there we walked to the beautiful Golden Temple where we witnessed Sikhs and tourists alike taking in this incredible site. Many were bathing in the waters of the Pool of Nectar while others sat and prayed inside ...
The Golden Temple
... to enter the Temple. It is a long wait, as everyone takes the time to pray in front of a main altar before continuing on. There are several floors with different places to pray (or so it seemed to me). The interior is ornately decorated, and up on the roof the golden onion-shaped dome shines, gilded with nearly 100kg of pure gold. After walking around all the floors, we walked back along the bridge to complete our full tour of the outer walkway before ...



