First destination - Amritsar
Flew to Delhi from Mumbai a night before and boarded a early morning train - Shatabdi to Amritsar. It starts at 7.30 am and reaches Amritsar by 1.30 pm.
Few clicks from the train-
I was so looking forward to this 2 day trip to Amritsar...one of the many reasons was to meet @pbkulkarni . He was to join us for the trip up till Rishikesh. But a bad luck he missed the train by just 15 minutes and there I could see a lot of plans being canceled and hoping the trip moves on as planned. We even had a awesome lunch which @realin got for us at Ludhiana station :) Yummy it was - Amritsari parathas :p Oh and it was such a pleasure meeting him and his wife after knowing him for so long :)
Not that we had great plans..as the train was to reach in noon so we planned to visit the famous Wagha border that evening and later in the night visit Golden Temple.
The hotel we choose was a walking distance from the Temple. We stayed in Hotel City Heart Amritsar - www.hotelcityheartamritsar.com and an hour and a half drive to border.
A very decent, simple, clean and non expensive stay it was. We checked in and freshened up and were ready to leave for Wagha border.
What can I say about this place... less said the better...maybe I would just let the pictures do the talking:
