On October 13th, 1950 a DC-3 flying machine (AAF) that had a place with Orient Airways – now Pakistan International Airways (PIA), crash-arrived following three minutes of taking off from Skardu. All of the crew and travelers survived – including popular creator James Albert Michener.
An occupant of Skardu, the late Brig. (Retd.) Mohammed Aslam Khan was extraordinarily enlivened by James Hilton’s fiction novel “Lost Horizon.” In the story, a plane crashes almost a waterway bed. The surviving travelers ran over some Buddhist priests from an adjacent sanctuary to look for their assistance, and they took them to a wonderful lamasery which was loaded with natural products. The merry place was called Shangrila in the story, a Chinese word signifying “paradise on earth”.
He acquired some land near a lake called Kachura and planted an orchid brimming with various kinds of fruit. He at that point purchased the smashed plane from Orient aviation routes for Rs. 150 and it took him three months alongside many men, stallions, and bullocks to move it to its present area.
In 1983, Brig Khan manufactured a resort at a similar area and named it “Shangrila”. The plane was then transformed into a coffee shop. The coffeehouse is open from the finish of March until the finish of October consistently and closes amid the unforgiving winters of Skardu.
The bistro has turned into a one of a kind vacation destination in Gilgit-Baltistan and individuals visit it from everywhere throughout the world – for the bites and the stunning perspective.
