Amritsar - December 23rd

We left Delhi around 8pm on December 22nd and took an overnight train to Amritsar. We arrived around 6:30am on the 23rd. We spent all day touring the amazing city. Amritsar, meaning "Pool of the Nectar of Immortality" is the spiritual and cultural centre of the Sikh Religion.

Our first stop was the Jallianwalla Bagh,the site of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, one of the defining events of India’s struggle for freedom from British rule. On April 13, 1919 the British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. Official sources place the casualties at 379, but private sources put the number at over 1000 with more than 1200 wounded, and Civil Surgeon Dr Smith indicated that they were over 1800.