day 33

We had to get the 7am bus to Amritsar so an early start. It took about 3 hurs to get there. When we got there we went straight to the golden temple, its really good. We walked round there for a few hours, and had lots of people staring, shaking uor hands and requesting for photos with us...because they cant get enough of white people! Later on we went looking for a place to stay the night, but everywhere was really expensive. In the end we found an ok place about 10mins from the Palace. As soon as we had dropped our stuff off there we went to Wagha, which is on the Pakistani border. Every evening there is a ceremony where guards from both countries close the gates and lower flags. It was really good, it was like a pantomime with India chanting things, then you could here from the otehr side of the fence Pakistan with a feeble attempt of a comeback as they have no tourists to shout lol. I also had my first bit of alcohol! jsut 500ml of lager, but it was great all the same. It took about 1.5 hours to get there from Amritsar, so when we got back it was quite late. We went to a posh hotel/restaurant which looked great but the service wasnt that good. Then we went to bed because it was quite late and we needd to get up early.