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Heritage connection

Punjabi heritage

The North trip has a specific weight for you that it won’t have for everyone else. The Golden Temple at 4am during the first prayers isn’t a tourist experience, it’s something different. People with Punjabi heritage have described it as the most unexpectedly emotional moment of their lives.

Amritsar sits at the centre of this route for a reason. The 4am first prayers at the Golden Temple, the Wagah Border ceremony’s strange mix of theatre and genuine feeling, and the option to extend deeper into Punjab all speak directly to what “roots” means for a Punjabi diaspora traveller, not abstractly, but as a specific set of streets, sounds and hours of the day.

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