A shortest back packing trip to Amritsar-Delhi

Boarded an early morning flight from Mumbai to Delhi. No, it wasn't my final destination. It was a connecting flight so had no option but spend a complete 7-8 hrs in Delhi.

Luckily the flight(Spice Jet ????)was on time and the beginning was perfect. Reached the Delhi airport by 9.30 am and had a good complete 7-8 hrs to spend until the next flight. Had already googled a lot many things to quickly do in delhi nearby aiport in a short time.

Me and my friend Swati quickly headed towards the bus stop from where you can get a bus service from airport to Aerocity metro station(nearest). We boarded the bus and within 10mins it dropped us at the metro station in just 30/- per head.

Aerocity metro station is placed on the metro line which runs between Dwarka to New Delhi metro stations. We boarded this train coming from Dwarka.

Note : You will only get a one way ticket to any metro station. No return ticket is available as we get in Mumbai metros.

We quickly boarded the train and in 15 mins got down to the Shivaji Statium metro station.

This metro station has many options for you. We quickly headed towards Palika bazar and Connaught place . It has street food, street shopping, coffee shops, clothe brands,shoes, tatoo shops etc.

We had already started tasting the flavor of punjab in the air. The charm of the city and the way we were greeted and treated said it all about the place.

We got an excellent hotel deal on Goibibo app for the 2 nights stay we were gonna do in Amritsar. We had booked Valley View hotel which was 20 mins away from the aiport and 10 mins near to the famous Golden temple of Amritsar. We got freshen up quickly and as it was already 9.30pm we thought of having a chilled out dinner plan.

Found this amazing restaurant 'Makhan fish and chicken corner' on Zomato app for the best chicken in Amritsar.

This is an amazing place for morning breakfast with the famous special Kachodi. It's an old cafe which is famous in the area and has visits of many famous celebrities. All this is for the yummy Kachodis they serve.

So now we had enough energy for the day and moved towards the Golden temple. The surroundings of the temple(parisar) is amazingly developed and indeed a clean and beautiful place to walk around and feel the cold morning breeze. This was so much enough to tell us how holy the place is. We started walking towards the Golden temple, navigating through the market area which had the Jallianwala bagh, sweet shops, phulkari dupattas, mojadis, lassi etc.

We heard a man shouting the fare from golden temple to Wagah border which was 12-13 kms away from amritsar. We asked him the details and decided to go in his vehicle which was suppose to leave at 1pm for Wagha border from the temple. We made a deal and headed towards the main area i.e. Harmandir sahib. What to say about this holy place!!

The amazing vibes of the place had already made us speechless. The Golden temple is the serene centre of the city. Just one word 'Beautiful'

Wagha border as we all know it as the border between our country India and our neighbouring country Pakistan, is an amazing place to experience and see the energy of the people towards our nation. The daily evening parade starts by 4pm and continues for an hour. It's a big stadium like place where you get a place to sit on a first come first serve basis.