Lower Kachura Lake, also known as Shangrila Lake is located in Kachura village in Skardu city at a height of 2,500 metres. The lake is also known as Shangrila lake after a resort built on its bank in 1983.                                                                     
Shangrila was established in 1983 with the opening of the first Resort Hotel in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan. Shangrila Resort Hotel was founded by the late Muhammad Aslam Khan Afridi, the first commander of the Northern Scouts of the Pakistan Army. The resort is known for its restaurant that is built on the fuselage of an aircraft that had crashed nearby.