Amritsar and the Golden Temple
Amritsar is the home of the Sikhism´s holiest shrine, the breathtaking Golden Temple. Me and Anna-Karin found out about this place watching the BBC TV documentary series "The story of India". The gold plated temple sits in the middle of a its holy pool. The whole area has a fantastic friendly vibe. People smiled at us all the time and some even came up to hug us. Just amazing...
Next to the tempel area there is a huge community dining hall. Everybody seems to be welcome to sit down at the floor with thousands of pilgrim and have a free meal. An old lady to care of us and showed us what to do. The food tasted great. Afterwards we volunteered to do some washing up and where invited to look at the kitchen. There we saw hundreds of volunteers preparing the food.
