I am there in Delhi for the last 5 months with project mates, since from last 5 months, I had dream to go to Amritsar. I was planning all the time, because of project pressure, I dint get the opportunity to go. But one day night, i.e. on wednesday 4th th august, we thought to go to Amritsar. Suddenly I took initiative and asked all whether they are ready? everybpdy agreed, then I called train agent to book to train. The plan was to book tickets for 9 people for 2 days. (Going on friday and come back on Monday) . We booked the Chattisgarh express to go from Faridabad( 7.15pm friday) and amritsar express( 9.30 pm Sunday) to come back.
6th August :
2pm - Agent gave tickets and he took 150 rs extra charge for each ticket on tatkal. Everything was good till that time. But as the time progressed, wickets started falling.
5pm - Out of 9, 4 wickets fell, 5 people came out of office including me.
we went to Faridabad railway station around 6.30pm , train in at 7.15pm. But train came 1hr late. Faridabad railway station speakers are so horrible that we could not make out
what they are saying. Train came at 8.10pm, the whole compartment is ours as we had 9 tickets booked for us.
7th August:
10pm: We reached Amritsar, first we thought we will go to temple direcly and take rooms in the temple if avaiable. BUt as soon we came out of Station, we met with one auto driver. He had good offer.5 people , 550rs, the whole day in amritsar raoming in richsaw. He only helped in getting the lodge. we took loddge in Samrat Hotel, 300rs / room.
11 pm: After freshup, we we directly went to Durgaih Tirath temple. Temple is very big and very old temple. Spent a good amount time. We had channa puri there itself. Hot Puri with channa, and paneer chutny combination was great taste.
12.30: After this we went to Jalian Walian Bhag. When I saw that I remembered my school social studies book. After entering to it, realised how our freedom fighters sturggled to give us independence. So many people were killed by ruthless General Dyer here. Still we can see the bullet marks. The well were people jumped into it and died. there is Amar Jyothi which is shraddhanjali for for the people who died. We saw the museum and small video in Jalianwalia Bhag. When coming out the mind was thinking so many people sacrificed themselves for the country.
2.30: We went "Big Brother Dabha" , it is AC hotel. We ordered punjabi special thaali hoping that we will get real Parantha. BUt food was not at all good. Parantha was not at all good.
3.00: We went to one more temple "Vaishno temple" , this temple is miniature kind of actual Vaishno Devi .
3.30pm: From there we started to go to Wagah Border, it is around 30km from Amritsar. This border seperarates our contry with neighbour country. It was huge crowd there. At 6pm the military parade happens from both side, Border Gate opens of both countries and flag hosting also happens. We reached there at 4pm itself. It was sunny day , temp is around 40 degree . But nobody is bothered out there. I think, all Indians who come there will be full josh, that moment everybody ready to die for the country. The whole crowd was chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', 'Vande Mataram' without stop. Ohh that was great moments, one officer of BSF was motivating us to shout more loud, so it should get heard to across the border. Indian Border side , all stands were more than full, but the other side of the border, stands were empty. All my energy went there itself, but you dont feel that,because patroitism will be its peak. You will realize only when you come out there. we took pictures and videos.
7.30 pm: After lot of satisfaction, we moved to Golden temple. We wanted to see the Night view of temple. around 8.30 we reached the temple. Temple was really well organized. Shoe Counters and baggage counters all are very systematic, No security check as much as we find in other temples. The moment we enetered, we saw the Golden temple in the night. It was amazing man!! I was so happy to see as it was my long back dream. Inside the temple also , you find huge crowd, but it is well organized. you dont find any problem. We took pics and spend around one hour as we were planning to come next day morning again for Darshan.
The auto guy dropped us to one more restaurant, where we had dinner I ordered veg birayani, it was toooo spicy , I managed to eat half with 2 full raitha. :)
11.30pm: we came back to hotel and slept.
8th august:
10.00am: we checked out the room, and went to 'Kundan restuarant'. Here Actual Pujbabi style parotha we got. Very good parotha with side dishes with them. At the end Full glass lussy made our breakfast complete.
11am: We came to GOlden Temple, the day was sunday. It is fully crowded. Still we manaeged to put our luggage in cloak room. After that I took dip in holy water.
We stood in the queue around 12. Got darshan at at 4pm. It was very nice be there in temple. After Darshan, we were listening Bhajan of Sikhs. We listened it for half an hour, the instrument musics are so good, u will really like that.
Around 4pm we went to 'Bharwan Da Dhaba', here food was excellent. Then we roamed around Lawrence road and Kapda market. Lawrence road is having shopping complexes and in Kapda market, you mainly find the clothes for gals.
7 pm: We were tired, so we took rest in the park which is exaclty opposite to Golden Temple.
9.15 pm: we were in station and got into the Amritsar Express Train to back to Faridabad.
2 days of trip went very well. People say Amritsar can be covered in one day. But I strongly recommend two days to enjoy fully. So that you can spend time without tension thinking about time.
