TRAVEL DIARY- #OBSERVATIONS- A BORDER OF A DIFFERENT KIND, DAWKI , MEGHALAYA

Have come  accros International  borders many times In India. Specifically the Sino- Indian and Indo- Pak border posts are very sensitive and prohibited ,  artillery installations , bunkers and alert commodos with the AK 47  are  common sights and there will be  flag hoisting and lowering parades , which typically will petrify  a visitor  , with the sense that at no point of time a shoot-out may break out . 

But here is one  international border which will give a different experience . Its not even called as border, its called the the India- Bangaladesh Friendship Gate . Off there , on the banks of  UMNGOT river . was a notional line ......which is the so-called  border line betwen India and Bangladesh , and in the Bangaldesh side you see a  line of chat vendors , whith their masala peanut and bhel bhoori baskets  and mind it no vistors are allowed to cross that line . A representaive of the chat vendors will collect the order and money and hand over the materials to the other side of India which is hardly at a hand shaking distance .... .... I got my share of a paper cone of Bangaldeshi masala corn  and looked at the Indian side of the  border security post at a distance at ease.......thats coooooooool . 

- @ Dawki - Indo - Bangladesh Border 0n 26th May 2019

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