The most wonderful flag lowering ceremony in the world
For tourists, the most popular, ornamental, antagonistic and wonderful flag-lowering ceremony in the world took place on the border between Pakistan and India. This place is called Vaga, which lies between Lahore and Amritsar. Every day, the two sides are at daggers drawn, and the flag-lowering ceremony of the competition makes tourists feel interesting, humorous and passionate. I don't know when it started, but it has become a famous tourism project in both countries and is world-famous.
Preparatory ceremony
There are auditoriums in front of the national gates of the two countries at the Wagga Port, and thousands of "cheerleaders" composed of residents and tourists from both countries are crowded every day. The two sides played the national anthem, and special ceremonial soldiers waved flags and shouted slogans to mobilize the emotions of the audience and tourists. There was a deafening uproar. After that, four guards of honor from each side entered the stadium, strode to the country, unlocked the country and stood in their respective positions.
Admission ceremony
After the preparation ceremony is in place, the ceremonial soldiers of both sides will hold a brief entrance ceremony through the closed country (visitors can see the performances of the ceremonial soldiers of both countries if they sit in the higher audience), and eight heroic ceremonial soldiers will officially enter the venue for queue and step performance. The majestic and striding military posture made the audience cheer. After getting ready, the soldiers in front of both sides opened the country together.
Military situation confrontation
After opening the country, the current music stopped and the audience was quiet. At this time, the two sides will send their own guard of honor as a military gesture of confrontation. They will walk towards each other with the same footwork, lift their feet high and hit the ground hard. Both sides will hold their breath, and whoever lifts his feet high will have loud footsteps. After the performance, they glared at each other (and sometimes smiled at each other), and then closed their doors to the outside world.
Arouse the emotions of the audience
After the retreat, the two sides made final preparations and shouted slogans to mobilize the emotions of the audience and tourists again. Drums, shouts, and cheers rose higher and higher, while the ceremonial soldiers performed military postures and took their positions. When it is ready, the national gate will be opened again, and the flag bearer and the ceremonial soldiers will walk to their flag flagpoles in a military posture (the flag flagpoles are on both sides of the national gate), and the flag bearer will untie the rope and prepare to lower the flag.
Flag lowering ceremony
The flag bearers of the two countries untied the rope at the same time, and at the same time pulled the rope to the opposite side of the flagpole to make the rope cross. The flag bearers of both sides took their positions in the form of military confrontation, and the audience immediately quieted down and waited for the flag to be lowered. The trumpets sounded, and the flag bearers of both sides slowly lowered the national flag at the same time. After the flag was lowered, the military posture confrontation performance was performed again. After each side sent a guard of honor to shake hands, they closed their doors and completed the whole flag-lowering ceremony.
Such a wonderful flag-lowering ceremony is unique in the world and worth seeing. The whole process lasts about 30 minutes. Friends traveling to Pakistan can't be easily missed. It's only four hours' drive from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, to Wagha, and one day is enough.
Note: Black military uniform is the honor guard of Pakistan; The khaki military uniform is an Indian guard of honor.