A trip to Amritsar

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Caption -1 The Golden Temple.

The Golden temple is the main tourist attraction of the Amritsar, Punjab. You will feel the beauty and the peace here. So this was the most memorable trip for me as almost 150 students of our college are the part of this amazing trip.

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Caption -2 Gurudwara Rakab ganj sahib.

Our journey was started from the Gurudwara Rakab ganj , Delhi. All the friends and Student was gathered here and waited for the buses. After seating on the buses we started our journey to Golden temple.

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Caption -3 70 Mile stone ( MURTHAL).

Our first stop is on MURTHAL which is famous for its food. The interior of this restaurant is amazing and very crowded. The main restaurant in murthal is

“Amrik Sukhdev” but due to very long waiting we had our food in this restaurant.

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Caption -4 Inside view of the restaurant.

The place is very crowded because this is very popular or we’re almost 200 students here so it will make it more crowded. There were many selfies and photography points.

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Caption -5 Aloo piyaz Parantha.

I ordered the Aloo piyaz Parantha here. The food is good but you have to wait for 10 to 12 minutes because of the crowd. As per my personal opinion food is little expensive as â‚ą100 or $1.2 USD is very expensive for this Parantha. After eating this Aloo piyaz Parantha we all were ready for our destination. We sang songs , play games on buses the whole night.

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Caption -6 Gurudwara Shri Dukhniwaran Sahib, Patiala.

Our second stop is Gurudwara Shri Dukhniwaran Sahib, we visited this Gurudwara and after that we enjoyed tea with bread toast at this Gurudwara. The line is very huge but they arranged a seperate line for us. After this we reached Amritsar and checked in our rooms then we all friends rests for a while and went towards the Street heritage of Amritsar.

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Caption -7 Street heritage view of Amritsar.

The Street view of this place is amazing. It’s really an amazing view which gives you great vibes. Whenever you come here I will definitely Suggest you to visit this place.

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Caption -8 Maharaja Ranjit Singh statue.

This statue is the centre of this beautiful Street heritage. Maharaja Ranjit Singh is also known as the Sher - e- Punjab or Lion of Punjab.

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Caption -9 Famous food of Amritsar.

We tried Amritsari famous kulchas from “Bhai kulwant Singh kulcha wala” the prices are very nominal and the food is amazing we tried aloo and paneer naan here with sweet lassi. We also tried tikki chat from BK Chaat bhandar.

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Caption -10 Local shops of Amritsar.

You can buy rings , kadas and many more things near the golden temple. You have to bargain and I’m sure you will get all this stuff with more than :joy: 50% discount. Because this is.the Main tourist attraction of Amritsar so the rates are very high but if you start bargaining you will get things in almost half or less than half rates.

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Caption -11 Jallianwala Bagh.

Jallianwala had a very deep history in it. It’s one of the famous place near the golden temple. You can visit here for free and it’s wheelchair friendly too. Photography and videography are allowed here.

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Caption -12 Inside view of the Jallianwala Bagh museum.

The entry to the museum is also free you can take pictures here. The information written on the walls and on the screen is really informative to know the history of this place.

Some important information on Jallianwala Bagh:

  • Free entry :white_check_mark:
  • Photography and videography :white_check_mark:
  • Tourists friendly :white_check_mark:
  • Wheelchair friendly :white_check_mark:
  • Clean washrooms :white_check_mark:
  • Free and clean drinking water facility

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Caption -13 Partition museum.

Partition museum is also a nice place to visit here . The ticket price is just â‚ą10 for an adult and free for children. The photography and videography is prohibited here but because of our request they allowed us to take some pictures.

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Caption -14 Inside view of the museum -1

There was many old articles and things which shows the history of the partition. There is also a screen in which you show the whole film on partition.

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Caption -15 Inside view of the museum - 2

You have to spend almost one hour to see this whole museum nicely.

Some important information of partition museum:

  • Entry price is â‚ą10 for and adult and free for children.
  • Photography and videography :x:
  • Wheelchair friendly :x:
  • Parking facility :white_check_mark:

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Caption -16 Some pictures of The Golden temple.

After the darshan of the golden temple our journey to the Amritsar is successful ended. We enjoyed the langar ( Prasad ) food here which is very tasty. The first thing I noticed is that the halwa which is served in the Gurudwara’s of Amritsar is little different from that served in the Gurudwara’s of Delhi. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

After reading the @TravellerG feedback, i think it’s a great and important thing to sharein this post that if you want to travel the same places then you need only one day to visit all these places in Amritsar including the wagha border.

Places to visit near the Golden temple:

  • Jallianwala Bagh (near golden temple) (6:30 to 7:30pm)
  • Wagah Border (30km away). (10am to 4pm entry)
  • Saada Pind (7.9km away) (1Oam to 10pm) (70 Cpp meal included)
  • Lahori Gate Market for shopping Traditionals (7am-9pm)
  • Gobindgarh Fort (2.1km away)
  • Trillium Mall (5.6km away)

Food joints near the Golden temple:

  • khalsa Kulcha outside Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh Ji(8am-4pm).
  • Bhrawan Da Dhaba (7am-11pm).
  • Kesar Da Dhaba (1:30pm-10:45pm)(Speciality-Phirni).
  • BK Chaat Bhandaar (4pm-1lpm).
  • Kulwant Kulcha (8am-4pm).
  • Pehelwan Kulcha (8am-3pm).
  • Lovely Veg Chaap (1OOFT Road) Famous For Chaap.

Google map locations of the places included in the post :

Thank you everyone for reading this post I hope you will like :blush: .

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@Mukul_Anand A place I really want to visit, but have yet to get the opportunity. I will definitely get there one day. The food looks nice and the many attractions are amazing as well.

Did you manage to meet any “local” Local Guides there?

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Wonderful views of Amritsar city and the monuments @Mukul_Anand , though I missed the museum and Jallianwala Baug on the last trip since it was closed for renovation.

I think Amrik Sukhdev is overhyped since people behave as if there is no other place to eat on the highway.

I will definitely try the dishes there on the next visit.

If possible, please also share the Google Maps link of the food places within Amritsar that you listed.

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Thank you for your comment my friend @StephenAbraham I was looking for local guides of Amritsar but due to timing issues it was not possible but I hope I will meet on next trip.

@TusharSuradkar thank you for reading my post. Jallianwala Bagh is a must visit and I’m totally agree with you that the amrik Sukhdev restaurant is overhyped because their prices are very expensive and the taste is just normal. I will add some locations of the famous food points of Amritsar.

Thank you to both of you, have a nice day :blush: .

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This is an apt recap @Mukul_Anand

I feel like i am there with you because of the vibrant pictures.

Thanks for sharing with us.

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Thank you so much @Sagir for you warm comment. I’m happy that you like it :blush: .

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@Mukul_Anand Excellent post…Nice photography…Delicious food

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Thank you buddy @SanjayBDLG for your kind response :blush: :pray: .

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@StephenAbraham

You should visit it Just out golden temple 2 minutes walking there is Sarai ( to stay room you get ) for NRI that to reasonable price.,I got to stay there in 2017 at $8 per day .Inside the golden temple free kitchen is there.

There many local guide if you visit do let us know they will come welcome u.

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@Mukul_Anand

Wow , Awesome post beautiful photos of golden temple.at Amritsar there are outside many small stall there u will get Paratha for 50 rs with chole.

I had been to Amritsar in 2017 with my kids my four stay but I was not lucky in July month it started raining the day we reached so we couldn’t go any were only at golden temple inside all small Gurudwara we could see we not lucky to have langar also . Only my son went to Jallianwala Baugh .He click nice photos.

I had mentioned in my post.

Thanks for sharing in detail.

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I love the cover photo and all the details you have put in there.

I first heard about this place from @RosyKohli ma especially of how great it is for the Punjabis to visit.

I enjoyed the post. @Mukul_Anand my new friend

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Beautiful views @Mukul_Anand It is so nice you took a trip to explore. My favorite picture was of the Golden Temple at night. I love how it looks like it’s floating on the water. Also, I liked the picture of the “Aloo piyaz Parantha” - so yummy!

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Thank you so much @RosyKohli i tried famous as well as local food of Amritsar the cheapest food I had was aloo parantha and chole of â‚ą30 which was amazing. I loved to visited here. Thank you for spending your precious time to read my post :blush: .

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Wow what a beautiful post @Mukul_Anand . I really want to visit Amritsar golden temple as have it on my travel list. The photos are so beautifully taken. The temple looks so beautiful. And the aloo pyaaz paratha wow with all that makhan on top of it. Hope you had good time. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Keep guiding!

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Thank you so much @AnithaM for this appreciation. I’m glad that you like this post. Have a nice day and keep guiding :blush: .

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Thank you for spending your precious time to read this post @AZ_2021 . You’re absolutely true that it looks like floating on the water and it’s very beautiful at night :blush: .

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Yes @Ewaade_3A I also read a post of @RosyKohli and it’s amazing. I’m happy that you like it :blush: .

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Hello dear friend, @Mukul_Anand

Wow, excellent post - loved it very much.

Amritsar, Golden Temple, Wagha Border, etc. are also in my bucketlist - the difference from South India is the first barricade.

Very interesting writing style.

Well conceived and presented - appreciate your efforts.

Right from starting the trip, you have explained everything very well…

As mentioned by our @Ewaade_3A , I too love your 1st photo; of course other photos are also impressive - great!

PS :

A humble request:

Can you add approximate times from starting till the end of your trip? This will be very helpful for other travellers in planning.

From where did you start?

Regards to you both…

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Thank you so much @TravellerG for your appreciation , I will add the timings and number of approximate days for this whole journey today.

Thanks for your feedback and support :blush: .

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Welcome, my dear @Mukul_Anand …

Thanks for your response…

Once you add, request you to kindly tag me,

Thanks in advance.

Regards with prayers for all success…

:pray:

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