Dining hall

Golden days

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October 11th 2008
After Delhi i headed to Amritsar, home to Golden temple, the most sacred site for the Sikh religion. The temple is open 24hrs a day, and offers all people who want to visit it, regardless of their religion, free food and accomodation. The place is run very efficiently, a very strange experience in India, and even more amazing is to think it all operates on donations only. Another famous Amrtisar ... 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