Category: Amritsar, Punjab

Amritsar is Punjab at its most sacred and most vibrant — home to the Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple, one of the most spiritually and architecturally extraordinary buildings in the world, and the stage for the Wagah Border ceremony where two nations perform their complicated relationship every evening at sunset. But Amritsar is also a gateway into a landscape that belongs entirely to Punjab: the mustard fields of winter, the villages of the Gurdaspur district, the five rivers, and the farming culture of a people whose hospitality is as legendary as their food. Come for the temple. Stay for the fields.