Amritsar, Punjab

When I look back on all my travels, seeing the Golden Temple in Amritsar was something that I didn’t appreciate enough at the time. I hadn’t been in India longer than a few months and didn’t really know until after living here a while how amazing it was. People putting caste aside, free meals for everyone, complete respect and extreme devotion in a place (with serious history) they will let tourists sleep for convenience. Seeing men bathe in the water while women are completely covered on the side chatting to one another not allowed in seemed unfair at the time, but now I understand it more. Volunteers made the entire thing happen. It’s a place I want to go back and learn more about. It’s great that in the same place you can take time to see the Wagah Border ceremony at the Pakistan border.