Lower Kachura Lake , additionally referred to as Shangrila Lake is placed in Kachura village in Skardu city at a peak of ,500 metres (eight,two hundred ft). The lake is likewise referred to as Shangrila lake after a motel constructed on its economic organization in 1983.
Shangrila Resort
Shangrila became mounted in 1983 with the opening of the primary Resort Hotel in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan. Shangrila Resort Hotel turned into based by means of the overdue Muhammad Aslam Khan Afridi, the primary commander of the Northern Scouts of the Pakistan Army. The motel is thought for its restaurant this is built on the fuselage of an aircraft that had crashed close by.
Shangrila become named after a book titled Lost Horizon through James Hilton. In the unconventional, the writer narrates a tale wherein an aircraft crash landed near a riverbed, within the early 1920s. The surviving passengers got here all through some Buddhist priests from a nearby temple and sought their assist. They have been taken to a lovely lamasery full of a selection of end result and plants. The monks seemed pretty more youthful, despite the truth that they claimed to be hundreds of years vintage. The idyllic region became referred to as Shangri-los angeles, a Tibetan word because of this “Heaven on this planet”. In 2015, one of the picture of Shangrila Resort modified into declared due to the fact the grand winner of the Wiki Loves Earth, 2015, after a global contest.
