It is well known that Pakistan and India are not the best friends. But nowhere else this is more celebrated than during the daily ceremony when the border between the two countries is closed just before sunset.

Stands have been erected on both sides of the border, which are filled with spectators, and the Indians and Pakistanis support their respective soldiers with cheers and applause while they try to beat the opposite site in stomping, saluting, marching, posing, shouting, etc. The soldiers do this in a way that we were wondering whether we accidentally slipped into a Monty Python film, or if we were watching some kind of behavioural study in Bantam cockerels.

The ceremony is definitely worth a visit – no matter on which side. However, the Pakistanis take the whole thing a little bit more serious than the Indians, on whose side of the border the atmosphere is definitely more cheerfully. Most tourists go to the main border station in Wagah to watch the ceremony, but we actually saw it in Kasur, just a little bit further in the south of Lahore. The border there is  smaller,and has the advantage that the soldiers of the two countries are standing much closer.