gilgit #1
30 aprile, Pakistan ⋅ ☁️ 8 °Cwe arrived in gilgit with no idea where to go, but were quickly able to find a cheap hotel. we rested in the room for the rest of the day. elias got cocky at one point and made a bet that he couldLeggi altro
we arrived in gilgit with no idea where to go, but were quickly able to find a cheap hotel. we rested in the room for the rest of the day. elias got cocky at one point and made a bet that he couldLeggi altro
this bus was not it. apart from a nice breakfast stop, i couldn't really move or sleep for twenty hours, my headphones were broken and the road was atrocious. nonetheless, as the sun came up, at leastLeggi altro
after 3 days of couchsurfing together and with the visa applications done, we finally decided to split up for good. dimitri decided to go back down to karachi, anna and elias stayed in rawalpindiLeggi altro
after arriving in pindi, we managed to find an atm and spent our first couple of rupees at a burger joint. after dinner, mathieu and elias went off to find a hotel while dimitri, anna and me opted forLeggi altro
just a couple of minutes before our departure, we learned that the journey would actually take more than 30 hours. thriller. the vibes were surprisingly good pretty much the whole way through, even ifLeggi altro
the second day of the escort was the most adventurous one. we saw multiple accidents on the roadside, dozens of flooded road sections and ran into a huge traffic jam collumn consisting purely of thoseLeggi altro
the escort group on the pakistani side consisted of more people than i had expected. there were elias and anna who i already knew, of course. together with me and a dimitri, a russian, we made up theLeggi altro
because the process was so quick, we decided to just try to cross the border that same day. we went to the taxi stand looking for a shared taxi to the border, when we met anna from ukraine, who hadLeggi altro
we left early the next morning to go to the consulate, where we met the single greatest embassy worker ever. we expected a harsh interview, but instead got drinks, snacks and a philosophy lecture fromLeggi altro
in order to get out of iran as quickly as possible, we first had to go to the pakistani consulate in zahedan to get our visa interviews done. because zahedan was still more than 1.5 thousandLeggi altro