2/6. After a huge detour, Michael crosses into India at Lahore, visits the Golden Temple in the Sikh city of Amritsar and passes through Shimla, with its relics of the British Raj. Finally, after a trip to the politically sensitive capital of Kashmir,
Srinagar, he is granted an audience with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.
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