In 1919 a peaceful demonstration in the park was turned into a bloodbath when British troops started shooting at the demonstrators. As a reminder of this massacre the bullet holes in this wall was left as they are
India 2004 part II - Amritsar, Dharamshala and Deshnoke July 2nd 2004 From a temple covered with gold to a temple covered with rats
After having spent the first days in Delhi and Agra we felt that we wanted to travel to some of the other places we had on our agenda for this trip. First we went to the city Amritsar.
Amritsar
Amritsar is in Punjab in the northwest of India, not far f ... 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
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info