Introducing Sost & Afiyatabad
In 1996 Pakistani customs and immigration shifted several kilometres upstream to what is officially called Afiyatabad, sometimes called New Sost but most frequently just called Sost. Afiyatabad/Sost is a frontierlike strip of shoddy hotels and dank teashops, frequented by Chinese traders, frenetic bus drivers, moneychangers, jeep-wallahs and their passengers.
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Old Sost is a quiet backwater and most travellers will never see the original village of Sost (also spelled Sust), or Upper Sost, at 3100m on a ledge above the Highway. But if you have the time you can strike north through fields from old Sost to Upper Sost and follow the trails to Sost Nala. The walled fields, the poplars and fruit orchards, and the dramatic canyon make for a very different scene from the one along the road.
Across the river from Afiyatabad, about an hour’s walk away, is Khudabad village and Khudabad Nala.
Last updated: Sep 30, 2008
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RE: VOA: Any first-hand experience from Sost border 2012?
by chitralguyimran 30 May 2012
Bonjour Eric, Pakistan stopped granting VOA at Sust last year to foreign tourists from China into Pakistan, the visa policy is more stric…
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VOA: Any first-hand experience from Sost border 2012
by eriklien 30 May 2012
To anyone that has entered Pakistan from China this year: Do you know if visas are issued on arrival in Sost? There are a few threads…
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RE: Gilgit Visa Extension
by chitralguyimran 29 May 2012
Merci mon ami. Things change overnight here, the fragile policies have done a great damage to the reputation of the country. Last year…
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