Day 11: Diaries from Summer Vacation 2019

We took an awesome and memorable 10 day road trip (17th May 2019 - 27th May 2019) from Chandigarh to Amritsar via Himachal Pradesh. These are the notes taken every night from that vacation. I will publish them one day at a time for the next 10 days

PS: Just realised it was a 11 day trip and not 10. 
 27th May 2019 Day 11

I write this on day 11 (edit 12) as I simply was too tired to write it yesterday. We got up in Amritsar and I was very very tired. So I decided to stay in the hotel, while Richa and Reyansh wanted to go inside the golden temple. We couldn't enter inside the temple the day before as it was too crowded. Before leaving for the temple we did the majority of packing. 

Richa and Reyansh left and I decided to catch on some sleep in the hotel. Around 20 minutes later, Richa called and told me that we didn't go inside the Jalianwala Bagh yesterday. I wanted to go in for sure. So I took a quick shower and asked Richa to meet me near Jalianwala Bagh in a bit. I finished packing, put the bags in the car and rushed to Jalianwala Bagh. Richa and Reyansh again found a huge queue and decided to not enter the temple and came near the Jalianwala. 

We also saw a Digambar Jain temple in the same lane as Jalianwala and had a quick visit over there.

  

This happens to be 100 year anniversary of the tragedy in which so many innocent people were killed by General Diar. The entrance to Jalianwala is as narrow as it was a 100 year ago, it is even marked that this was the way from which Diar entered the Bagh. There are a couple of brick walls one can still see marks of bullets which were fired at the time. A total of 1650 rounds were fired by the troops. One can also see the well in which most people had  jumped to save themselves. A total of 120 bodies were taken out of the well. The well is very concealed though. The crowd in the Bagh is too much and you hardly get any sense of nostalgia or sympathy inside the park. 

After visiting the park we went back to hotel, and then to return the car to zoom car. A cab to Amritsar airport, flight back to Bangalore and a cab back to home followed. 

An awesome vacation comes to an end. A few of the highlights for me were : 

1) Unplanned road trips are fun. 

2) People are throwing plastic bottles all over the beautiful landscapes of our country. We need to clean it up soon or else we will lose all the natural beauty we have. 

3)  Himalayas are majestic and we should visit more often. 

Signing off Day 11.