pakistan visa
 

Hi Susanne

well we went yesterday. you have to hand in your stuff between 9 an 10:30 am. it gets really busy and they dot accept anything after 10:30 so try get there by 9.

you need a letter from your embassy in ENGLISH. and you need 3 photos , they will give you 2 forms to fill out and then you need to write a letter saying why you want to go to pakistan and why you didnt apply for a visa from your own country. also put your name your fathers name and date of birth and what city and country you are from.
also you need a copy of your passport from the first page with all your details and also any page that has a visa from your travels up to now ...

then from 11am the same day they will ask you to stay for an "interview" it only takes 5 minutes and he asks why you are going and stuff like this ...
they gave us a phone number so we have to call them this afternoon they will tell us if we get one or not and if we do we have to go tomorrow and get the visa . it costs 37,000 tomans ...
there were at least 5 others there traveling by car or bike aswell, i think we have a good chance of getting the visa.

we asked for a transit visa which is for a fortnight but in the interview the guy said he can try for one month. we just want to pass through to india ...

we will see this afternoon.
hope we all the the visas an travel soon!!

sareh

Hi Sarah
Thanks for the information. Keep us posted and let us know if you got the visa. We will be trying when we reach Tehran. right now we are in Elazing in Turkey. Heading further east tomorrow.
Susanne

Hi Sareh
One more question. What reason did you give for not applying from your home country and please explain to us what the embassy have to write to in the recommodation letter.
Thanks and good luck
Susanne

Hi
One last question to everyone, any good recommendations for hotels in Iran after the border from Turkey and in Tehran. How long did it take to cross the border?? Any problems with customs?
Susanne

On the Turkey side there will be a guide making out he is passport control, tell him to do one. Go through the doors on the left and straight across the concourse to the opposite side, go straight through some large gates outside on the right leading into an enclosure, turn right again around the corner of the building and halfway along there is a hatch at the back of the building but no signs, this is customs, hand them passports to get exit visa stamped and then head back to passport control. Everything went well for us on the Iran side, make sure you do lots of smiling, it really helped, touts again are a real pain in the arse, just tell then your ok and after about half hour they get fed up. You will need copies of passport when you hand in your carnet, guy in the foyer has a copier.
Total from arriving a Turkey control to leaving Iran control was 3 1/2 hours.
Oh yeah, when you leave passport control you go down the hill to another barrier, they will not let you though until you have insurance, that's opposite, $20.

Pete

okay so they said to call tomorrow at 11am when i called today !!

for our reasons we wrote, that i didnt know i was going to go to pakistan by land and my friend wrote coz he left his country one year ago.

in the letter from your embassy, they know what to write, just tell them you need this letter and the important thing is that it should be in english. my embassy (australian) charged 25000 tomans and they said that they verify that my passport is a true copy and not a fake passport. and my friends embassy (spanish) said he had to write a letter telling them why he wanted to go and that it was his responsibility should anything happen, and the embassy letter wrote that he is a citizen of spain and that they think its a good opportunity for him to go to pakistan ... and it was free

its all bullshit, so each embassy will write whatever they like ...

we ll be in touch
sareh

Hi Pete
Thanks a lot for the presice description of crossing the border. where did you change money, can you change just after you have crossed the border??
we are very exiced about the idea of going to Iran
Susanne

There is a Bank Meli in the transport office halfway down the hill after the border but before the barrier, round the back.

Crossing Pakistan border
 

Hey guys
Were currently in Tehran waiting on our Indian visa's and a re-issue or our Carnet. Probably be around here for the next 5/6 days. Were planning on crossing over to Pakistan around the 14th or 15th Oct not exactly sure as plans are changing day by day. If anyone is interested in crossing the border around the same time it would be good to hear from you...safety in numbers and all that. We bought an Iranian sim today so we can be contacted on the number below. We heard sms doesnt work all the time so your probably better to call.

Take it easy

Liam and Luke

00989381656409

hi guys, ive got your number and ill be in touch.
hope to see yous soon!
s

Update from Jo and Mark
 

Dear All,

Sounds like everyone's moving forward on borders and visas. We crossed the border 7 days ago and had a dream crossing of 45mins. We are currently in Tehran and are due to pick up our Pakistani Visa tomorrow morning. They have said they will give us three months.

All being well, we'll head to Esfahan via Kashan and apply for visa extension for Iran there. The rest of the journey should include Shiraz, possibly Persian Gulf coast, Yazd, Kerman, Bam etc.

I imagine we'll be crossing to Pakistan in approx 14 days.

Should let you know that we're in 4 wheels and can do around 80kph max.

Let's keep in touch.

Jo and Mark

Jo and Mark Overland

hi all !

okay we are now having problems with the indian visa, they say that its dangerous to cross by land through pakistan so maybe they wont give it.
though when i said we are a few people with a few cars, they said that i should call in 2 days and talk to them and they may consider this ...
anyways ill let you know what happens

sareh jorge and pato (new friend)

We also are trying to get our Indian visa in Tehran. We made our application last wednesday and told to come back today the 5th. So we went to the embassy today and then we were told to come back again in two days. Nobody said anything about it being too dangerous to cross or anything really...
Fingers crossed I suppose we will get the visa

Update Jo and Mark
 

Dear All,

Hope all visa issues have been resolved for you. We managed to get a Pakistani Visa in Tehran. We are now in Shiraz and off to Persepolis tomorrow and then to Yazd and Kerman. We hope to be in Kerman around the 15/16/17 Oct and maybe do a day or so seeing the Kaluts. We have heard that there is a good guesthouse with a courtyard for overlanders in Kerman called the Omid Inn. It is on Shahid Qarani St.

We will travel from there to Bam and then Zahedan. I imagine this means we could be crossing the border around 21-23 October. None of these dates are set in stone, they're estimates.

Any good to anyone?

We'll pick up in Yazd again in a couple of days time.

See Ya?
Jo and Mark

Hi there,

we got our indian visa too ! 6 month, mutiple entry, so we are leaving tehran in 2 days for esfehan shiraz yazd and then to zahedan, so i think we will be there by the 23rd ...

hopefully we can cross over together still !

and liam and luke thanks for the info on the visa.

sareh