Shangrila Lake or Lower Kachura Lake is a part of the Shangrila resort located at a drive of about 20 minutes from Skardu (nearly 2,500 m or 8,200 feet) town.It is a popular tourist destination, and has a unique restaurant that is built on the fuselage of an aircraft that had crashed nearby.
Shangrila was established in 1983 with the opening of the first
Resort Hotel in Skardu, Baltistan. Shangrila Resort Hotel was founded by the
late Brig.(Retd) Muhammad Aslam Khan, the first commander of the Northern
Scouts of the Pakistan Army.
Shangrila was named after a book titled "Lost Horizon"
by James Hilton. In the novel, the author narrates a tale in which an
aeroplane crash landed near a riverbed, in the early 1920s. The surviving
passengers came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple and sought
their help. They were taken to a beautiful lamasery filled with a variety of
fruits and flowers. The monks looked quite young, although they claimed to be
hundreds of years old. The idyllic place was called Shangri-la, a Tibetan word
meaning "Heaven on earth"
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