China-Pakistan Khunjerab Border Gate to impose number limit on swarming tourists

[Yasser76]

Chinese girls! Wow! If I was 30 years younger and not married!

 

[El Sidd]

Chinese girls! Wow! If I was 30 years younger and not married!

What is wrong with you?

 

[Yasser76]

What is wrong with you?

Sorry, Chinese boys!?

 

[El Sidd]

Sorry, Chinese boys!?

This interaction is enough to understand the dilemma of swarming tourists from Pakistani side, what's fueling the swarms on the Chinese side?

 

[Yasser76]

This interaction is enough to understand the dilemma of swarming tourists from Pakistani side, what's fueling the swarms on the Chinese side?

Same reason people go to Wagah, granted there is no big flag lowering show but is a nice sight

 

[El Sidd]

Same reason people go to Wagah, granted there is no big flag lowering show but is a nice sight

There's no way the emotions are same as those at Wagah. For Khunjerab one must traverse the most scenic Himalayan setting.

 

[Yasser76]

There's no way the emotions are same as those at Wagah. For Khunjerab one must traverse the most scenic Himalayan setting.

It must still be quite a novelty to visit one of the world's highest border crossings

My wife and I visited the Splugen Pass (Swiss/Italian Alpine border) for this very reason last year

 

[El Sidd]

It must still be quite a novelty to visit one of the world's highest border crossings

My wife and I visited the Splugen Pass (Swiss/Italian Alpine border) for this very reason last year

One truly appreciates the geographical diversity of the country. It marks the end of their journey through what they have chosen to call home and get a glimpse of a neighbour they call iron brothers.

None of this can be replicated anywhere else in the world. This is where old world terms like east and west first melted.

People endure bandits in Sind, insurgents in Balochistan and KPK, the merchants of Punjab to get here as some national pilgrimage.