Gulmarg is a town, a hill station, & a popular skiing destination. The town is situated in the Pir Panjal Range in the western Himalayas in the Baramula district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was renamed to Gulmarg (“meadow of flowers”) by Sultan Yusuf Shah of the Chak Dynasty who frequented […]
The legendary Golden Temple is actually just a small part of this huge Gurdwara complex, known to Sikhs as Harmandir Sahib. Spiritually, the focus of attention is the tank that surrounds the gleaming central shrine – the Amrit Sarovar, from which Amritsar takes its name, excavated by the fourth Sikh guru, Ram Das, in 1577. […]