Skardu
Skardu star stone, meteorite an altitude of nearly 2,500 m is a town and capital of Skardu District, in Gilgit–Baltistan,Pakistan. Skardu is in the 10 kilometres wide by 40 kilometers long Skardu Valley, at the confluence of the Indus flowing from Near Kailash in Tibet and through Neighbouring Ladakh already travelled 700 km before reaching Baltistan and the River. Under the Shadow of Kharphocho Fort on a design similar to that of Leh palace and the Potatla Palace in Lhasa ,Tibet dates from the 8th century CE and contains an old mosque probably dating back to the arrival of Islam in the 16th century CE with a myth it was built by a ghost as they were servants of the ruler of that time, on the northern Bank the main block of the Karakoram mountains rises in a serried wall, 150 km thick with almost 100 peaks rising to over 7,000 .in no other part of the world is there such a large numbers of high mountains in such a curbed place is fascinating den for the travelers.