Rose: Monday 19th November - arrived by train in Amritsar - a snip of a journey at 7.5 hours with a delay of a mere 30 minutes. Trains are really nice - chair class is quite spacious with aircon But travelling, despite doing nothing, is invariably tiring. We found a really nice hotel and bargained a decent price of just over 5 pounds a night aft...

Once in Manali I was at a junction where I could journey in any possible number of directions so the decision was made to go downhill out of the mountains, to the western end of the country. I hopped a 15 hour bus to Amritsar, the site of the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest site. As more than half of the ride involved leaving the Himalayas ther...

I departed from New Delhi station at 720am. The train ride was heaven compared to the bus rides of my first few legs. They gave us tea, newspapers, a bottle of water, and breakfast. I went 400 kilometers north. Amritsar is a bustly cement city in Punjab north of Delhi, near the Pakistan border. It is most famous for being home to the Golden Temp...

September 18, 2007 This afternoon we leave Delhi by train for Amritsar in the Punjab, on the Golden Temple Express. Our two tickets cost 1105R. We also had to settle our hotel bills which turns out to much higher than we had been told because they added on a 10% service charge and an 8% tax which makes the total price $260 for 7 nights for a roo...

Pues asi que zumbando sali de Delhi. Uff. El aire acondicionado de mi tren (decidi ir de "lujo", pero en segunda clase cuidado, en el Shatabi Express, que solo se detiene lo imprescindible y ademas va con aire acondicionado. Eso si, los retretes dan directamente a la via, asi que mientras uno esta en ello, ve pasar las traveseras...) Desayuno in...

Left McLeod Ganj early, and made it to the Golden Temple in Amritsar in time for lunch, in fact even better, free lunch. The Golden Temple is the holiest of holiest sites to the Sikh and like all Sikh temples it has a free community kitchen, and this one is HUGE feeding 30,000 people per day and the acoomodation is free as well which soon become...

This time a 7 hour bus journey was unavoidable as we made our way into Amritsar, the holy Sikh city. It was a bit of a shock to be back in a noisy, dusty city but the rickshaw-wallers were well set up for the tourist market, at least for visiting the Golden Temple. The pollution and weather conspired to provide a less than ideal grey backdrop, b...