Golden Temple

Seeking Sikhs

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August 3rd 2009
After leaving Udaipur I went to Amritsar in the North West of the country, near the border with Pakistan. My hotel was very close to the famous Golden Temple - in fact you could hear the chanting of the proests from my room. The Golden Temple is very different from most Indian temples - there is great ostentation, obviously, with the roof and much of the walls of the main temple area being cov ... 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