Amritsar Travel Blogs

A month long exploration of the sub-continent. I waited several years to be able to make this exploration, but it was worth it!

Amritsar, India took me by surprise.  I had NO IDEA how amazing this place would be - especially after almost three weeks in the quiet and relatively clean Himalayas.  After my meditation experience, I was a little concerned about jumping back into the hustle-bustle of India's city-l…

Sikhism, professed by 65 per cent of the population here, is one of the world's newer faiths. It was founded by one Guru Nanak, in the early years of the 16th century. After a lifetime of travel, he concluded from what he saw that 'God is to be found neither in the Koran or the Puranas' (the sacred…

Hi to all!  Today is wonderfully sunny and the smog hasn't rolled in yet we are camping at Mrs. Bhandiries campsite.  We are in the Punjab now and about 32 kms from the Pakistan border.  Almost everyone here is a Sikh, so all the men wear turbans.  Our guide "Avtar" is a Si…

I arrived in Amritsar late on Saturday night - the train journey from Delhi wasn't too bad, but I prefer to take a sleeper class train - it's hard work sitting in chair for 6 hours with the family from hell kicking the back of your chair, spilling ice cream all over you etc lol. Getting to the Gol…

The other attraction is Amritsar is the daily ceremonial closing of the India-Pakistan border, held after the actual closing of the immigration checkpoints.  The border is nearly equidistant between Amritsar and Lahore (on the Pakistan side). After surviving the stampede (literally), we were …

The Golden Temple at Amritar was absolutely brilliant.  As far as temples go, it wasn’t the most impressive.  Beautiful and grand, but on its own it wouldn’t have been the most memorable place I visited in India.   What made visiting the Golden Temple so memorable were the …

DAY 1 We got up extremely early in Dehli and walked to the train station for our 7am train to Amritsar. I was amazed to find that the train station wasn’t actually that busy. I was however sickened when I saw a woman on the platform opposite us stand up and walk to the edge of the platform and …

Leaving Bhubaneswar was surprisingly emotional.  I don’t know why I was surprised; after all, I spent nearly four months there.  I think it was a combination of saying goodbye to people I’ve grown to care about -- whom I may never see again -- and the normal anxiety that com…

Na 1,5 dag Delhi houdt ik het voor gezien. Toch maar besloten om met de trein naar Amritsar te gaan en daar de Golden Tempel te bekijken. Jaren geleden zag ik het op TV en toen waren er de schietgevechten tussen de seperatisten en de Indische overheid. Heel bizar zo'n mooi goudklompje en allem…

With just 36 hours in town, I was up and out early, GT-bound. After the chilled-out traveller hangouts of Manali and Mcleod Ganj and a bunch of one-goat Himalayan villages in between, the bustle of Amritsar was a shock - almost Delhi-lite. Obviously a busy commercial town rather than just tourist …

Definitely one of the highlights of our time in India, the Golden Temple was a great place to have visited. It's such a peaceful place, where you can really feel comfortable and unhassled; the place has a really spiritual feel. The temple is the holiest shrine of Sikhism. You have to remove y…

Dallying in dial-up Dalhousie 8th September. It is rather like Sidmouth, in the hills - only more sedate. No young travellers, rather retired brigadiers. No broadband, only dial -up, hence this entry comes from Amritsar. It is beautifully situated, 6000ft up, and retains some Raj era qualities. Pr…

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