Lower Kachura Lake is located in Kachura village 20 minutes from Skardu city town.The lake i known as Shangrila lake after a resort built on its bank 1983.
Shangrila was named after a book tittled 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 1920's.The surviving passenger came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple and sought their help.They were taken to beautiful lamasery filled with a variety of fruits ans flowers.The monks looked quite young,although they clamied to be hundreds of years old. The idyllic place was called Shangri-la, a Tibeatan word meaning "Heaven on earth "
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