{"id":2900,"date":"2014-08-03T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2024-02-09T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:32:00","slug":"evening-golden-temple-amritsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/evening-golden-temple-amritsar\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening at the Golden Temple in Amritsar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this time of the year, the sun is strong, and it is way too hot for me to really enjoy the action at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Also, everything does look much better when it is dark and the light illuminates the Harmandir Sahib Temple and the complex surrounding the pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/50.jpg\" alt=\"Harmandir Sahib  Amritsar\"\/><br \/>The sun is about to set over the Harmandir Sahib and the surrounding complex. There are two huge screens inside the square. They translate all the religious songs that play in the temple into English, so one can understand if he does not speak the local tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/51.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are always on patrol to tell the visitors if they do something wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/52.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/40.jpg\" alt=\"Darbar Sahib Amritsar\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\"\/><br \/>Blue hour! The Golden Temple and the main entrance to the complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/53.jpg\" alt=\"Darbar Sahib Amritsar\"\/><br \/>A devoted takes a bath in the holy water of the Darbar Sahib<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/41.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best view and the best time to sit here. The hot sun is gone and everything looks more majestic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/42.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/44.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If only the ugly water tower would not be here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/45.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bridge towards the Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/46.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View with the bridge and the exit towards the food complex in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/47.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guard keeps an eye on things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/48.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2014\/india\/49.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Temple Amritsar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View from the main entrance towards the Golden Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 1: <a title=\"Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple in Amritsar\" href=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/harmandir-sahib-golden-temple-amritsar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harmandir Sahib or the Golden Temple in Amritsar<\/a><br \/>Part 2: Evening at the Golden Temple in Amritsar<br \/>Part 3: <a title=\"People Watching at the Golden Temple in Amritsar\" href=\"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/people-watching-golden-temple-in-amritsar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People Watching at the Golden Temple in Amritsar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of the year, the sun is strong, and it is way too hot for me to really enjoy the action at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Also, everything does look much better when it is dark and the light illuminates the Harmandir Sahib Temple and the complex surrounding the pond. The sun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165,160],"tags":[429,425],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amritsar","category-india","tag-amritsar","tag-india"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14115,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/14115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}