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What are all these people waiting around to see? Why, it’s a nightly border closing ceremony, of course!
Amritsar is 30 km from the only Indian border crossing into Pakistan. As Martin explains here, relations between the two countries aren’t all that great. One would think that the border would be a dangerous place. A place that would be avoided by, oh, the 10,000 people that come here nightly to see the gates shut for the night.
Not so.
The ceremony has become such a spectacle that it draws in huge crowds from both sides. The general idea is this: each side, Indians and Pakistanis, have a number of guards that stomp around and kick as high as they can. This is done while being very manly and (probably) gnashing their teeth at one another. Once enough kicking and stomping has happened, the gate between the two countries is closed for the night.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. I’m laughing about it still.
- Indian border guards
Pictures don’t really do it justice, so I’m posting a series of videos in my next post: here.
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