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Faces of Wagah
The lowering of the flag ceremony at the Wagah Border, which you can read about here, provided an excellent opportunity for people watching. Sitting in the viewing stands for more than an hour gave me lots of time to look around and snap photos of the border guards and civilians in attendance.
Here’s some of what I saw that afternoon:
(Click on thumbnails to enlarge, right arrow to advance slideshow)
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A Memorable Trip to the Wagah-Attari Border
The flag lowering ceremony held at the Wagah border is among the more unusual festivities I’ve attended while traveling. This border crossing is not far from the Sikh city of Amritsar which I’d visited for a few days, so I arranged for a car, driver and guide to take me to this event (recommended to me by someone who had lived in the region).
This is a daily ceremony done by the security forces of India (Border Security Force, BSF) and of Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers). It can alternatively be viewed as a symbol of the two countries’ rivalry, or as one of cooperation depending on your philosophy (my perspective was that it was mostly one of rivalry, as the two nations …
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