Friday, January 25, 2013

Trip to Amritsar

Planning :-
After a long time I planned for a trip. Me and my friends planned for Amritsar, one of the a spiritual and cultural center of country. We werethree and trip duration was a day. We targeted three major checkpoints
of our trip.Golden temple, Jallianwala Bagh and Indo-Pak border known as Bagha Border.

Saturday night:- We traveled by train.It was Tata Jammu Tavi Exp.Its scheduled time was 10:00 PM.Thanks to our Indian railways, train was 2 hours late. We got a lot of time to walk around Delhi railway station. We went to hair saloon. Then enjoyed McDonalds burger ,french fries and cold drink.

Sunday Morning  (The judgement day :P) :- We reached Amritsar railway station at 9:00 AM. We hired an auto for Rs. 500. Auto driver told us that there were also some temples around to see. 

We went Vaishno Devi Temple where there was artificial cave and all god and goddess of four major dhams. 

 We also went to Durga Mandir. It was built in vast area.
Then we reached to Golden Temple.It was Sunday so there were a lot of people there.

Golden temple has great grace and glory as i had heard earlier. The management of temple was terrific. We had a good lunch there in Langar. It was well managed process. 

Then we went to Jallianwala Bagh, it was not far from the Golden Temple.There were signs of the bullet, well,monument and Amar Jyoti (powered by Indian Oil :P).
We finished things on 2:00 PM for Bagha Border  function. Around 2:30 PM we left for Bagha Border. It was near 30 Kms from the city.This took 1 hours , I guess. 

Bagha border was a nice experience. There was a border having a gate and the two sides had two naghbour contries. There were people from Pakistan opposite to us. There were songs for the country. Loud voices of "Hindustan Zindabad" ,"Vande Matram"from our side and "Jhule Jhule Pakistan" and some Urdu slogans from Pakistan side. There were school girls having Tiranga in their hands running towards the gate. Group dance was also there from our side on famous patriotic songs.I couldn't see that kind of enthusiasm from Pakistan.Then there was combined march of the two countries in center and bringing the national flags down after sunset simultaneously.

Sunday Night:- We got ample time since we were done on 7:00 PM and the return train was after two and half hours.We walked in market front of the Railway station. Then we had our dinner in "Pahalwan di Dhaba". After having dinner to our heart content we were in our train "Golden Temple Exp." which was right on the time.

Monday Morning:- Though train started right in night but reached "Hazrat Nijamuddin Station" 2 hours
late.Bingo again 2 hours. A great one day trip was over and we were back to the daily action.

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