Beautiful View

Sacred Temple Visit

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September 7th 2008
Golden Temple Day, Today Maina and Saroop took me to the Hari Mandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib or in English, The Golden Temple. Of course we had special front door parking through a gated area. We left our shoes outside the gates at the shoekeeper place, covered our heads and proceeded in. We walked through a small creek like pool so it could wash our feet and then in through the main clock tower ... 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