Amritsar Inns - Reviews and Rates

We left Delhi at 6.30am to catch train to Amritsar, famous for the Golden temple as you will see in background of the profile picture of me wearing my fetching shawl..(just purchased that morning!)

Anyway this was our first train journey in India, we had pre booked aircon seater class, OH MY it was FREEZING!! could not believe how cold i...

The holy home of the Sihk religion and the last frontier before we head into Pakistan!

After a big sleep I get up to another cold shower.. Eee! I have to wash my hair as well... Have you tried washing your hair in cold water... Its alright for all you baldy fellas - no hair to wash but us girlies - maaaaan! :)
Ive still got that stupid headache that I got when we 1st arrived here. It wont go away - DK reckons its the lack of c...

We got an express train back to Delhi from Ajmer (near Pushkar) which took 7 hours then we had a nice rest day in Delhi before taking another express train up to Amritsar on the Pakistani border in the Punjab. The 6 hour journey wasn't terribly enjoyable - we were both quite unwell and we'll leave the state of toilets on Indian trains to your im...

After postponing the sixteen hour bus trip we decided that despite still slightly dodgy stomachs, we would run the gauntlet of the Indian pot-holed roads and mad traffic. This was partly due to the fact that it was just soooo cold (the rain was making Manali bear an unfortunate resemblance to England) and also due to the fact we had been told th...

The Golden Temple at Amritsar moved me to tears. It is an almost indescribably beautiful and happy place. Every Sikh must go there once in a lifetime and the sense of people on a very special occasion gave me a lovely warm gooey feeling deep inside. What I couldn't believe was just how welcoming the pilgrims were to such obvious tourists as myse...