Amritsar After Touring Cheap In I'mRicher

Just before I left New Delhi for the winter break, you could raise warm vapours off the urinal by pissing on it. But we stubbornly took a night train to Amritsar earlier this week to do some sightseeing, even though its a coupla notches higher in latitude. I expected to visit the Durgiana Mandir, the famous Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple, the infamous Jallianwala Bagh, and the popular Beating the Retreat parade at Wagah Border. All this happened (in order!).

Balcony seats don't have the same meaning at Wagah

But it's the things off the checklist that enrich the experience - walking through the old city instead of sight-hopping in a rickshaw; spending more time at the temples than I usually would have because my companions were immersed in prayer; cheering with gusto at the parade on the orders of a BSF officer, while the girls danced to patriotic Bollywood tracks; dining for free in the community kitchen or Guru ka Langar at the Golden Temple, and repaying the favour by folding cloth for the next day's rituals. In piss-vapourising temperatures (4°C). At night (2200-2300hrs). In the open (Golden Temple marble walkway). To a warmth-inducing chant (Satnam Waheguru).

I'm folding somewhere there ---->

By the way, why is the Golden temple oriented northeast-southwest? (CORRECTION 22/12/2010: southeast-northwest; doesn't affect the point of the question) 25 points for the correct answer...