Yesterday evening went to the Golden Temple (only a ten minute walk from the main bus station). Quite a performance to enter the Temple area; shoes have to be deposited in a locker area, touts try and sell you head scarfs, but not necessary as outside the main entrance they are provided free of charge. Interesting that you are not allowed to smoke in the busy side roads around the Temple, and when you enter you are checked for cigarettes, but not knives, hand grenates etc..... The Temple itself is very impressive !!!!! at anytime there must be in the region of 5 to 10 thousand pilgrims (most being Sikh). Photographs are allowed around the lake, but not inside. The queue to enter the Temple itself is always long, and can take up to 2 hours to get in.Well worth a visit!!! The calm, beauty and tranquilty of the location is thought provoking, even if you just visit to temporary escape the filth, noise and pollution of the rest of the town.
All the towns, and even villages I have visit never change...........no hygiene, never ending noise, continual hassele from children; rickshaw drivers etc. All very, very tiring.
TII, THIS IS INDIA, and love it or hate it's not going to change in my lifetime.
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