Ministry of Funny Walks

The Strangest Day (Amritsar)

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December 21st 2007
(Matt) 7am: Despite the stories we'd heard from other travellers of rats running over body parts and the need for 'a good clean' we decided to stay in one of the small rooms off the dormitory actually on the perimeter of the Golden Temple (Sikhism's holiest shrine). A man with a spear pointed us in the right direction to what could have been a set from 'Porridge' or 'Prisoner of Cell Block H' b ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more