Golden Heart

The Sikh may look fearful but they believed in equality centuries before it became fashionable.

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February 19th 2008
Our second month in India came with very different religious experiences. We started in Amritsar, the capital city of the northern province of Punjab, where we mixed up with a river of pilgrims visiting the Golden Temple, the equivalent of the Mecca for the Sikh people. We stayed at the dormitories offered for pilgrims and joined the more than 40, 000 humans eating in massive dining halls everyday ... read more

Asia » India » Punjab » Amritsar

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

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