Sost valley Gojal (upper Hunza)

Introduction:

Sost is the last village in Pakistan on the KKH. Sost Dry Port, Pakistani immigration and customs post. It stands at about 2,700 meters, 206 kilometers from Gilgit. Above the village is another example of determined village engineering, an AKRSP water channel that passes through a 400 meter tunnel. The foot of the tunnel is very high at the exit, as the villagers got the level wrong on their first attempt and had to dig down. On the west a footbridge about 1.5 kilometers upriver reaches bank of the Hunza River Khudabad village from Sost.