In the morning went to the parcel office. Did all the clearance work on our own. Our babies were at rest at platform no 2.We were about to take our bikes outside the platform, a GRP guy stopped us. He noted our builty passes number and let us go with the 100 rs bribe and a long lecture on our touring spirit.
Some of his words "Kya zaruat he ee sab nautanki karne ki,pehle inti mehangi fatfati lo..uske baad usko dhoo ke yaha le jaao aur phir chalao..Maa baap ne isi din ke liye paal pose ke bada kiya he" and he continued for 30 mins,may be more :D :D
Thank god he let us go,Refeuelled the bikes and saddled up for the journey towards Amritsar.
Road was quite good till Ambala,it did not took us much time to reach there. At Ambala..you have to take proper turn from a bunch of flyovers.
Road from Ambala till Amritsar was also pretty good. But at plenty of point’s flyover construction, road widening work was going on.
Delhi to Amritsar, climate was very hot. One thing I liked very much about Punjab was..the free Rooafza and Rasana getting distributed in every 50 Kms.I had plenty of them.
Just before 100 kms to Amritsar we encountered very-very bad dusty crosswinds. Almost zero visibility and our bikes attempting to outflow with the winds stream.
We arrived at Amritsar before dark. To beat the heat, we had Kulfi inside the Amritsar city at a very famous joint. That Kulfi shop was 30 years old.
We checked into a hotel nearby named Hotel Diamond for 500 Rs.
Our Hotel
We dumped our luggage and took a Shower.
Golden Temple was in walking distance from our hotel. We started for the temple around 8:10 Pm.
While walking I went into thinking mode :D , I don’t know what got into me.
4 days back from now, I was somewhere stuck in the crowded streets of Mumbai.Stuggling for small small things to survive.
And look at me now, walking on these amicable streets-lanes of Amritsar.Living,cherishing and enjoying every microsec of life.
Galli cricket @ nite
I was enjoying the relaxed feeling and the essence of the atmosphere. It was Sunday and the place was expected to be crowded.
Ah !! Almost there
After little bit of enquiring we reached at the temple.
One of the entrance
Till now I had visualized this place in pictures and now it was right in front of me. Its beauty-bloom was increased to a greater extent in the Night time.
Getting inside and having darshan took hardly 20 mins.
Life Sketch of Sikh Guru Sahiban
The Golden Temple
Long and wide queue
I was instructing him about the angle and he.....
Some super black African tourist :D :D
After darshan we went to Langar to have food(prasad).It was very appetizing.
On the right hand side,entrance to langar.
Went back to the hotel after having food, enquired about the Wagah border parade. Each and everyone advised us to attend the evening parade. The registration starts at 4:30 in the evening. In the morning time parade happens at 5:30 AM.
Me and Shadow arrived to conclusion that if we woke up early(which was highly impossible) by 5.We will try to catch up with morning parade.
With this promise to each other we crashed to bed.
Cheers
Biru
Great log. Delhi to Amritsar in a day is cool man... nice visit to Golden temple too. Continuing onto next log :)
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