Border Closings

On our last night in Amritsar, we went to see the Wagah border closing ceremony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagah

'Wagah is the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan and each evening splendidly uniformed guards on either side of the border perform a biazarre but proud performance to lower their respective national flags at the closing of the border. The ceremony attracts spectators on both sides and is a poignant reminder to the Partition of 1947 when Punjab was divided between two nations.'

This place was insanely busy. There must of been over 5,000 people...all locals....trying to get a good spot to view the uniformed guards.

We were all getting fraustrated with trying to move a few steps without getting squeezed to death.

Pravin came to the rescue by getting us to pretend we were the 'press'.

We got in by pushing and shoving our way through the metal detectors.

Very entertaining.

It did however look like the Pakistan side was much better organized with their spectators.