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GOLDEN TEMPLE TOUR :
Day 01: Delhi – Amritsar (450 kms / 7 hrs)
After morning breakfast, drive to Amristar. Reach Amritsar and transfer to the hotel. Amritsar is one of the most fascinating cities of India. It is an important seat of sikh culture and history. Visit the Golden Temple in the evening.
Day 02: Amritsar.
After morning breakfast, visit Golden temple in the morning. After visit to the temple, visit Jallianwala Bagh and summer palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In the afternoon, you will visit Wagah border ceremony. Drive back to hotel.
Day 03: Amritsar - Delhi (450 kms/7 hrs)
After morning breakfast, drive to Delhi and drop at your choice of place.
This wasn't there when I'd last visited the site way back in 1979. Part of the restoration of the Jallianwala Bagh memorial garden are these bushes shaped like the British soldiers firing. Being right next to the marker pyramid we saw in the previous picture, I can only assume that this is where the soldiers fired from. The 6.5-acre (26,000 m2) garden site of the massacre is located in the vicinity of Golden Temple complex, the holiest shrine of Sikhism. The memorial is managed by the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust, which was established as per the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, Act No. 25 of 1 May 1951 (in English), subsequently retrieved on 10 August 2016. For detailed notes about the Jallaianwala Bagh massacre see earlier pictures in this album. (see preceding images) (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
Jallianwala Bagh
Site of a British massacre (?) in 1919 where somewhere between 350 and 1,000 people died when they opened up fire
Este parque, a sólo 5 minutos a pie desde el Templo Dorado, se construyó en memoria de los 2.000 Indios que en aquí fueros asesinados o heridos por los británicos durante un tiroteo indiscriminado ocurrido en el año 1919.
Jallianwala Bagh
Site of a British massacre (?) in 1919 where somewhere between 350 and 1,000 people died when they opened up fire
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On April 13th, 1919, - 20,000 Indians were holding a peaceful demonstration in this open space surrounded by high walls. British General Dyer opened fire with 150 troops for 6 minutes. The result... Carnage. The infamous massacre and subsequent inquiry feature in Richard Attenborough's brilliant film Gandhi.
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The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Hindi: जलियांवाला बाग़ हत्याकांड جلیانوالہ باغ Jallianwala Bāġa Hatyākāṇḍ), alternatively known as the Amritsar Massacre, was named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on April 13, 1919, 90 British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted for 10 to 15 minutes, till they ran out of ammunition. Official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379, and with 1100 wounded.