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Amritsar was formerly known as Ramadaspur. It is situated in the north-western part in India in
the Punjab state. It is Sikhs pilgrimages and historic monuments. The state is a Sikh state
whether other people are also belongs here. Punjabis are world famous for their foodie habits
and enthusiastic nature. There are lots of places to visit but, it is renowned across the world for
the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, Durgian Temple, Akal Takht, summer palace of
Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and last but not least Wagah border ceremony.
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First, let’s begin your trip with The Golden
Temple. Sri Harmandir sahib or Sri Darbar
Sahib is informally referred as The Golden
Temple. The golden temple named formed after
its upper floor constructed from gold. Before
enter in the premises you have to follow some
rules, that put off your shoes and wash ones the
feet with water providing by the pool, cover your
head ,if you don’t brought any cloth or is not
enough to cover your head the gurudwara
provides head scarves, it’s a sign to respect the
god , you must not drunk and eating meat or
smoking cigarette, maintain the purity of the
place and when you enter in the Harmandir
sahib you have to sit on the ground and hear the
Gurbani , it’s just a difference between a human
and god.
This is a worship place of God for Sikhs. The complex has a water tank, which is fed by Ravi
River, the holy water where the devotees does their sacraments; they believe the holy water is
blessings from Sikh Gurus. There are the four entrance gates in Harmandir Sahib which
symbolizes to welcome everyone from any religion.

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After The Golden Temple there is another place to
“Akal Takht” is situated in the same complex. The
Akal Takht means throne of timeless one, is one of
the five power takhts (seats) of Sikhs which is
concerned with justice and consideration issues.
The sixth Guru Hargobind originated this place.
It is the highest authority of khalsa (a collective
body of Sikh) The Akal Takht and The Golden
Temple both built by Gold after the damaged by
Indian Army in 1984 during “Blue Star Operation”.
After the Akal Takht ,Durgian Temple is one of the old
temples of Hindu religion, it was originally built in the
16th century, but it was rebuilt in 1921 by Guru Harsai
Mal Kapoor in the Golden Temple architectural style. It
is situated in the middle of the lake so a bridge
provides the approach to the temple. It is also called
the silver temple because of its large, elegantly
designed silver doors. Its architecture is similar to the
golden temple, its dome is glided, and marble is used
extensively in its features.

Entering into the temple there are the idols of goddess Durga which is the reason to named as the temple as
Durgian Temple, Durga Temple and Goddess Lakshami and Lord Vishnu which is also named as Lakshami
Naryan Temple.
After a visit to religious places now move to the monument Jallianwala Bagh, it belongs to the 13 April, 1919.
When the Sikh crowd was peacefully celebrating the Punjabi New Year festival Baisakhi, then General Dyer
ordered his rifleman to shoot, and that was ten minutes continues blind firing in which the innocent people
including women and children were died and many were wounded. The number of people who died that time is
still unknown.
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The bullet marks are still present on the walls in the premises. The pain of that day is still can be felt when you
are standing on that ground. Summer palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh museum belongs to the Maharaja who
raised the sword of independence because except Punjab entire country was ruled by the East India Company.
He acquired Lahore in 1799 establish it as his capital and then Amritsar in 1802. He has played a decisive role
in Indian history, he was known as “Lion of Punjab”. A garden was laid out in 1818 in the north of the city on
behalf of Shalimar Bagh in Lahore, known as the Ram Bagh named was on the Guru Ram Das. The garden
was enclosed by masonry walls about 14 feet high ramparts and a gate capable of carrying guns, outside the
wall a moat filled water from Hasli canal. At the each corner of the garden was built with small Burj. This is a two
storey building where the Maharaja comes to enjoy and stay in the summer. Now, it is converted to museum.
The museum exhibits all the priceless collection of the weapons, paintings, armoury, manuscripts, and coins.
You can see everything from that era. This is really an epic collection.

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After, it moves to “Wagah Border” to see the
Beating Retreat ceremony. It is a daily military
practice of the Indian security forces (Border
Security Force) and Pakistan (Pakistan
Rangers) jointly followed since 1959. The
ceremony takes place every evening before
sunset at the Wagah border, which as part of
the Grand Trunk Road was the only road link
between these two countries before the
opening of the Aman Setu in Kashmir in 1999.
The ceremony starts with a blustering parade
by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends
up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the
two nations’ flags.
It is called the beating retreat border ceremony on the international level. One infantryman
stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are
opened and the two flags are lowered simultaneously. The flags are folded and the ceremony
ends with a retreat that involves a brusque handshake between soldiers from either side,
followed by the closing of the gates again. This place is echoed with patriotic songs in the
evening and the most attractive to visitors. You must be tired now but enjoy the dance on
border with patriotic songs.

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This day would be your most memorable day while visit to Amritsar. After a whole day visit
take Punjabi delights such as Makke di roti (corn flour roti) with sason da saag, Lassi, daal
makhani, laccha paratha, rajama (kidney bean) with rice, tangari kabab, tandoori chicken
etc. the variety of food you can’ t anywhere else and the yummy taste.
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