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Amritsar - as described by travel blogger Lin Hunt during a visit -
Five hours by train from the chaos of Delhi railway station bought us to the northern city of Amritsar, the holy city of the Sikhs and the site of the amazing Golden Temple. The Golden Temple is the Vatican of the Sikh religion and houses the Sikh Holy Book. We caught an auto rickshaw to our hotel which was very close to the temple, which is in the center of the old city. As with all the old cities in India, the streets are narrow and very crowded and draped with archaic and frightening jumbles of electricity cables. It was intensely hot, certainly as hot as Delhi had been the day before.
Though the hotel was close to the temple we couldn't see it but the streets were full of men wearing colorful turbans, particularly orange and bright blue and many had very long beards. A few hours later we headed back out to explore - unfortunately it hadn't got any cooler.
Read more of Lins' blog and see photos taken by her at her blog link above.
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Amritsar - as described by travel blogger Lin Hunt during a visit -
Five hours by train from the chaos of Delhi railway station bought us to the northern city of Amritsar, the holy city of the Sikhs and the site of the amazing Golden Temple. The Golden Temple is the Vatican of the Sikh religion and houses the Sikh Holy Book. We caught an auto rickshaw to our hotel which was very close to the temple, which is in the center of the old city. As with all the old cities in India, the streets are narrow and very crowded and draped with archaic and frightening jumbles of electricity cables. It was intensely hot, certainly as hot as Delhi had been the day before.
Though the hotel was close to the temple we couldn't see it but the streets were full of men wearing colorful turbans, particularly orange and bright blue and many had very long beards. A few hours later we headed back out to explore - unfortunately it hadn't got any cooler.
Read more of Lins' blog and see photos taken by her at her blog link above.
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