Top 3 Places To Visit In Pakistan! 1.Skardu The name " Skardu " is believed to be derived from the Balti word meaning "a low land between two high places. The Skardu Valley , at the confluence of the Indus and Shigar Valley , is 10 kilometres (6 miles) wide by 40 kilometres (25 miles) long. Active erosion in the nearby Karakoram Mountain has resulted in enormous deposits of sediment throughout the Skardu valley. Glaciers from the Indus and Shigar valleys broadened the Skardu valley between 3.2 million years ago up to the Holocene approximately 11,700 years ago. The Skardu region was part of the cultural sphere of Buddhist Tibet since the founding of the Tibetan Empire under Songsten Gampo in the mid 7th-century CE. ...