Top 10 Beautiful Places To Visit In Skardu-Pakistan
Traveling is an excellent way to increase personal growth. People travel, to see beautiful places, and survey new cultures, cuisine, and styles of living.
People travel for internal peace, self development, to meet new people, and for improving health. Here we have come up with the top 10 best places to visit Skardu.
Skardu is a famous point among tourist, the world's highest second mountain K2 here. This blog guides you precisely to visit the top 10 best places in Skardu.
- Blind Lake
- Manthoka Waterfall
- Katpana Desert
- Satpara Lake
- Upper Kachura Lake
- Lower Kachura Lake
- Khaplu Fort
- Basho Valley
- Shigar Valley
- Deosai
Blind Lake:
Blind Lake is Jarba Zho which is located at 30 mints drive from Skardu city. This lake is surrounded by the Indus river and Shigar river on both sides. There is a beautiful fish farm.
The boat is used to visit this lake, tourist enjoy the fishing and beauty of the lake,
which name is Zakh. Blind Lake is famous for hiking, camping, and also swimming. It is a good place to spend quality time with friends and family. There are three types of fish in this lake:
- Rainbow Trout
- Brown Trout
- Snow Trout
Here you can enjoy walking on sand, desert, rocky path, and green grass. So must visit Blind Lake and enjoy quality time.
Manthoka Waterfall:
A Manthoka Waterfall is a great and beautiful place where you can get peace of mind and relaxation. When water falls downward it makes an awesome view which attracts the tourist.
This is a perfect place where you can do a lot of recreational activities to do with the freshwater pouring. The things which attract the tourist are these,
- Swimming
- Waterfall
- Manthoka Waterfall Resort
- Trout fish
Katpana Desert:
The Katpana Desert is the world's highest desert at an altitude of 2226 meters above sea level.
There are large dunes that are driven by wind. In the winter season, the temperature is extremely low and the dunes are covered with snow which creates mesmerizing sight.
If you have a plan to visit the Katpana Desert must visit according to the weather forecast.
Luxury camping facilities are available here. Here you can enjoy a desert jeep race and a variety of local and international cuisines. Glamp Pakistan provides you following facilities:
- Camping
- Tent
- Wooden hut
- Hot water
- Many more.
Satpara Lake:
Satpara Lake is located 8645 feet above sea level. This lake is at a distance of 20 minutes of jeep drive from Skardu.
The water requirements of the Skardu are fulfilled by Satpara Lake. Satpara Lake is considered the most attractive and charming lake among tourists due to its excellent and breathtaking beauty.
There is a very beautiful story attached to Satpara Lake, that there is a gold mine under the lake. For that reason, in the daytime, the water of Satpara Lake seems to shine.
There are the following activities you can do here:
- Fishing
- Motor boating
- Rowing
Upper Kachura Lake:
The Upper Kachura Lake is a wonderful lake located in Skardu and it is at a distance of 30 minutes drive from Skardu.
This lake is surrounded by mountains which makes it more attractive. The water of this lake is ice-cold, clean, and clear.
You can do boating here and enjoy the best traditional food from the restaurants in the surrounding. In the winter season, the water of the lake is frozen and the weather is too cold.
The weather is excellent in the summer season for visit. There are the following famous things here:
- Boating
- Trout fish
- Swimming
- Boat ride
- Scenery
Lower Kachura Lake:
There are two types of Kachura Lake in the Skardu, one is Upper Kachura Lake and the other is Lower Kachura Lake. The Lower Kachura Lake is at a distance of 20 minutes drive from Skardu and it is a famous Shangrila resort or “ Heaven on Earth”.
The Lower Kachura Lake is surrounded by the Shangrila resort which makes it more attractive and mesmerizing.
The resort offers different facilities and traditional food to tourists. There are lake view restaurants that offer traditional food;
- Chicken tikka
- Seek kabab
- Fish
Here you can enjoy quality time with family and friends, so must visit here.
Khaplu Fort:
The Khaplu Fort is an award-winning destination, which was built 400 years ago. The fort is amazing and magnificent, due to its look, style, distinctive texture, and woodwork.
The woodwork done in the fort is high quality. There is a museum inside the fort which show you old culture:
- Old utensils
- Cabinets
- Jewelry
- Guns
- Royal letter
So must visit the fort and hear about its fascinating past.
Basho Valley:
The Basho Valley is almost 8800 feet above sea level and at a distance of 45 km away from Skardu. Nature lovers enjoy here with its beauty, meadows, waterfall, and chocolate rocks.
Basho Valley is surrounded by high mountains which is the home of deer, markhor, ibex, and snow leopard. The valley is famous for these:
- Meadows
- Waterfall
- Chocolate Rocks
Shigar Valley:
The Shigar Valley is located at a distance of 30 km from Skardu city and 2291 m above sea level. The valley is famous due to its fragrance, history, culture, traditions, hiking, trekking, and mountaineering.
The popular fruit of this valley is apricot, apples, pear, grapes, aloe vera, and mulberry. You can visit Shigar Valley's most famous places here:
- Mall Valley
- Amburik Mosque
- Shigar Fort
- Sarfaranga Cold Desert
- Hashupi Bagh
- Shotgun Hot Spring
Deosai:
Deosai is situated at 4000 m above sea level and it is a famous place among visitors. There are unmatched degrees of silence, peace and serenity makes it more beautiful.
Deosai was national park announced in 1993. Deosai has a beautiful sheosar lake, Greenland, and Alpine flowers making it more attractive.
Here animal lovers can see a variety of animals such as:
- Brown Bear
- Golden Eagles
- Red Foxes
- White Tiger
- Marmots
- Ibex
- Snow leopards.
We give a piece of brief information about Skardu top 10 places, so must visit Skardu and enjoy your quality time with family and friends.
Author : Ayat Noor