Golden Temple - Amritsar - Feb. 24

Golden Temple - Amritsar - February 23 & 24, 2006

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February 23rd 2006
Yesterday, Thursday, we arrived in this city of 1.01 million, in the Northern Punjab, 254 miles north west of Delhi, about twenty miles east of the border between India and Pakistan. The reason for taking this all-day, all-night, mid-morning trip from Varanasi, with first class AC all to ourselves, is The Hari Mandir, The Temple of God, popularly known as The Golden Temple of the Sikhs. The f ... 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