So we arrived in Amaritsar after an eventful six hours on a bus that burst a tyre followed by someone's camera being stolen in the aftermath. So glad we asked to driver to put our bags up front cause everyone else's were on the roof and we could see random locals just jumping onto the roof ladders of other buses! So anyway after we managed to get off the bus after waiting 10 minutes for some locals and the conductor to stop fighting we checked into our hotel, which was clean and quiet!! However it is plain to see that Amaritsar is not a peaceful city, we've been here a day and witnessed 3 fights on the street! We've been stared at beyond comprehension and even followed, matthew had to face up to this guy who trailed us for about an hour - then he ran away!
So the golden temple is not quite what we expected, yes it's very religious but we got a fair amount of hassle and it made us quite uncomfortable along with the heat!! As you can see from the pictures though it is very very beautiful. In light of the temperment of the locals to westerners... we have been spat at as well! We decided to skip the border ceremony with Pakistan and are booked onto a 37 hour train to Kalkutta! Why KalKuttu you may think, well it's the only other connection to darjeeliing apart from Delhi and we though we might as well see a different hot horrible city! To ease the pain we've booked into an expensive hotel, which is all inclusive and has a bath! yeah! That'll leave us with one afternoon to see a couple of sights and saturday night we're heading to darjeeling. Sadly we were forced to book a nicer AC class cabin cause the cheaper one was booked out, what a shame... ;)
Hope you like the photos, we're beginning to think anywhere beyond ther hill stations = delhi belly since we're onto round three! xxx
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Hi! Laurie and Matt,
Have just read your very interesting and amusing blog.Believe you are now visiting Calcutta - not all of it is bad, but unfortunately - you will not have time to see the better parts where we lived.Have a great time in Darj. Love Brenda.
Hi,
Looking forward to hearing about your epic train journey. Take my hat off to both of you, your powers of endurance are astonishing. Wish I was young again. If I knew your phone number in Cal - would try and phone you.
love - grandy
Wow! I am so sorry about your experience at the Golden Temple. Strange, because we had an amazing experience when we attended. It was so calm, serene, uplifting and inspiring. I really loved it and we ended up staying almost a week. I do agree they don't have adequate resources for foreigners - like they should have more tourist guides or something. I really enjoy visiting the local Sikh temple now - it is refreshing and peaceful. I'm sort of lucky that they have English translations available here - but I'm sure you could also find something like that. Have you been to sikhnet.com?
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