Curry in a hurry

Welcome to India:

So glad I've got a camera again! enjoy.


Sikh worshiper at the Golden Temple.


Sunrise at the Golden Temple, Armritsar, Punjab, India


Sikh guard with Golden Temple in background


Golden Temple, home of the Sikh Religion, which was founded by Guru Nanak in the 1600's.


The motley crew. We had to walk around the temple in a clockwise direction, in bare feet and with our head covered. They provided the scarves. There's a 24 hour chant performed by 4 Sikh priests, and free food provided to everyone, free entry. This is a really interesting religion, and really cool place to visit, glad we made it up here.


Last taxi ride in Kathmandu, on the way to the aeropuerta. My nickname is now BUCK. The mustache will probably be gone by the time you read this, am getting too many stares.... ;-)

So, we took a 5.5 hour train ride from Delhi to Armritsar yesterday, it was excellent. Great food served, A/C, comfy not crammed seats. Awesome. Armritsar is in Punjab (a state) and the home to the Sikh religion. The Sikhs have a long and ghastly brutal history with the Muhgals, and it was pretty interesting checking out the Golden Temple and museum. We were pretty much the only tourists there, among hundreds of Sikh's coming to worship.

Heading in an hour to the Pakistani border to watch the 'closing ceremonies' which is a Monty pythonish event which occurs and sunset everyday. The Indian and Pakistani army's meet eachother to lower their flags and try to out stomp, out march, and out scowl eachother. Later today we're hopping an overnight bus to Ganganga and then onto Bikaner. Bikaner has a temple full of rats (~40,000), which we hope to enter and photograph, one catch... Have to take our shoes off. Should be like that scene in Indiana Jones, looking forward to it?