Amritsar Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Atari - border ceremony 
So I've seen the Golden Temple in the evening, no it's the time to see it in the daylight. Well there was not too much of the light, actually. The morning wasn't starting for long. Then the sun has appeared on the milky skies - dull and flat. I was kind of cautious coming to the temple. Hell knows, if there are lot...

.Well after two rides on the local buses we were finally dropped off outside the main bus station in Amritsar in the middle of the busy main road. Two old ladies complained that they weren't at the bus stand and the driver just pointed across the road to where the busses were parked up. We disembarked the bus onto a main road of cars, buses, tuc...

Claire left us in Varanasi so Ragga and I headed off together for Amritsar, where our friend Badris that we met in Delhi, came to meet us. This time we had a 24 hour train ride. It was, of course, a very humorous ride. We shared our berth with a very friendly man who was concerned with all that we did. He inspected our fruit before we ate it (we...

Amritsar is a regular city, with great highlights. Although sights like the Golden Temple are typical on any tourist in Indias 'to do' list, they really are worth it. For me, the most amazing part of punjab, is Sikhism. Surprisingly rare in other parts of India, it has really dominated in punjab. The people and food here are both some of the bes...

When we arrived in Amritsar, Sam and I (Joe) both got a slight bout of 'Delhi' belly (Jared was alright). It was the train ride that tipped us over the edge - we caught an early train and had been playing poker with midget gems late into the previous night so we had had very little sleep. So ariving in Amritsar, after the jolty, 6 hour long jour...

Just a short entry today to say what a wonderful wonderful wonderful place this was. The golden temple complex itself was an irrestiable place to explore with a series of halls for dining and praying and relaxing interwovened with lots of shaded canopies where pilgrims hide from the days scorching sun. The temple itself is set in the middle of a...

Amritsar turned out to be a good idea. The Golden Temple is definitely worth seeing. It is a large complex, and once inside, it is very peaceful. There is almost continuous music being played inside the temple which is broadcast on loud speakers (not too blaringly loudly) all through the complex. It is soothing music, chanting with tablas and an...

Amrits*r is the he*rt of Sikhism, *nd the he*rt of Sikhism is the Golden Temple. Stressing unity *mong peoples of *ll religions, creeds, *nd n*tion*lities, everyone is welcome in the temple complex. Even better, *ll people *re welcome to st*y *nd e*t *t the temple complex for free. In hindsight, Amrits*r w*s * good pl*ce to st*y for Christm*s - ...

The holy Sikh city of Amritsar, on the frontier with Pakistan, is home to the incredible Golden Temple, the very core of Sikhism in India. Also, as I discovered, it was home to another one of India's celebrity lookalikes - this time, a rather good version of Pete Postlethwaite, who as I stumbled off the Shatabdi Express from Delhi feeling ominou...

After 15 hours of flat plains from Gorakhpur to Delhi we thought that there would have to be some change due soon, but the 9 hours we spent from Delhi to Amritsar proved us wrong. Its not that i've never seen so much flat space, i've flown over Oz and seen the African savannahs (ok, only on documentaries, but it still counts), but in India it's ...