Golden Temple, Amritsar

AMRITSAR AND THE PAKISTANI BORDER

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April 8th 2009
5-6 April. Our last days in India! We had another killer day of travel to get to Amritsar, home of the Sikh Golden Temple. It’s the center of the Sikh religion, is literally covered in real gold, and sits in the middle of a small manmade lake. Thousands of people come there to worship from all over the world, and the Amritsar Sikh community houses and feeds them - about 20-30 thousand people ... 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