Watching darshan.

Amritsar, 17-05-1994. I spent most of today inside The Golden Temple watchinh hindus, muslims and sikhs alike making darshan. There are small niches on the first floor from which i could watch the going-ons on the ground floor. There is always religious music being played which is not unpleasant to the ear. In the afternoon the tiled floor of the temple complex outside was so unbearable hot by the never ending pounding of the sun - you can only get inside the complex on bare feet and with head covering - Loads of volunteers were busy filling up buckets with water from the lake - The Golden Temple is located in the middle of a big lake - and throwing them out on steaming tiles. Amritsar has a nice old city but i only saw a small part of it. The rickshaw wallahs in Amritsar don`t seem as persistent as in other parts of India.