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Lower Kachura Lake
Lake in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lower Kachura Lake, also known as Shangrila Lake, is a lake located near the city of Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.[1] Situated at the height of 2,500 metres (8,200 ft), it has had an operational resort for tourists on its bank since 1983. Through the architectural work of the resort and the background Karakoram hills, the landscapes of the lake make it one of the attractive tourist destinations within the northern Pakistan.[2][3][4]
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Shangrila Resort Hotel was established in 1983 with the opening of the first resort hotel in Skardu.[5] The Shangrila Resort Hotel was founded by Aslam Khan Afridi, a Pakistani military officer who served as the first commander of the Northern Scouts of the Pakistan Army.[6] His son, Arif Aslam Khan is currently the chairman of the resort management.[1] The resort is known for its restaurant that is built in the fuselage of an aircraft that had crashed nearby.[2]
The resort was named after Shangri-La, an idyllic Himalayan paradise described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon written by the British novelist James Hilton. In the novel, Hilton narrates a tale in which the surviving passengers of an early–1920s airplane crash encounter a group of Buddhist monks from a nearby temple, who answer the passengers' call for help and take them to a lamasery filled with a variety of fruits and flowers; the monks claim to be hundreds of years old, but appear youthful in their appearance.[7][8] The seemingly earthly paradise is referred to as Shangri-La, a Tibetan-language word meaning, "heaven on Earth".
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