Lower and Upper Kachura Lake | Shangrila_Resort | 4K Aerial View

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqNjX7UJOs The Kachura are two lakes in the Skardu District of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. The lakes, at 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) in elevation, are Upper Kachura Lake and Lower Kachura Lake. The latter is also known as Shangrila Lake and is within a tourist resort named Shangrila Resort outside the town of Skardu The lakes are in the Karakoram mountain range of the western Himalayas, the greater Kashmir region, and in the Indus River basin. Lower Kachura Lake also known as Shangrila Lake is located in Kachura village in Skardu city (Pakistan) at a height of 2,500 metres (8,200 ft). The lake is also known as Shangrila lake after a resort built on its bank in 1983. President of the United States. ... Roosevelt (1933-45) named the presidential retreat as "Shangri-La" in 1942 because of this place. Camp David received its present name in 1953 from Dwight D. Shangrila was named after a book titled Lost Horizon by James Hilton. In the novel, the author narrates a tale in which an airplane 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 idyllic place was called Shangri-la, a Tibetan word meaning "Heaven on earth". Upper Kachura Lake is of clear water and has a depth of 70 metres (230 ft). In summer it has a temperature of 15 °C (59 °F). In winter the surface is frozen solid. The upper Indus River flows nearby at a lower elevation.