If you are a tourist and visiting Amritsar for the first time, here are the places you need to go to experience the city:
Golden Temple, Also known as Harmandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib
Also known as Golden Temple, it is supreme holy shine of Sikhs and birthplace of the religion. A trip to Amritsar is not compelte without visiting this place. It attracts more than 160,000 devotees from around the world every day.
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Jallianwala Bagh
A park where thousands of Indians were killed by Britishers, one of the events that ignited freedom struggle of India against British rule. One can still see the carefully preserved bullet marks. Located on your way to Golden Temple.
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The Silver Temple (Shree Durgiana Tirath)
Did you know, there is a Silver Temple as well in Amrtisar, India? It is the Durgiana Temple, also known by other names of Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Durga Tirath and Sitla Mandir, is a premier Hindu temple of Punjab situated in the city of Amritsar. It is just on your way to Golden Temple.
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Wagah Border
The lowering of the flags ceremony at the Wagah border, is a daily military practice that the security forces of India and Pakistan have jointly followed since 1959. The ceremony starts with a blustering parade by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations’ flags.
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Ram Teerath
Ram Teerath (a.k.a Valmiki Tirath) is an important ancient Hindu pilgrimage center located 10 km to west of Amritsar city. The place is birthplace of Lava and Kusha, sons of Ramachandra, in ashrama of Saint Valmiki.
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River Dolphins, Exhautic birds at Harike
Harike Wetland also known as “Hari-ke-Pattan”, with the Harike Lake in the deeper part of it, is the largest wetland in northern India in the border of Tarn Taran Sahib district and Ferozepur district of the Punjab state in India.
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