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RE: Skardu (Part IV): When the cherries were within arm's length in Shigar
I've never seen a fort as beautiful as this one. 😍
You know, I kept standing at the entrance of Shigar Fort for like 30 minutes but they didn't allow me to enter as it was closing time. It was very disappointing considering we didn't know if we'll ever get a chance to travel that far and visit the palace.
Loving these skardu diaries. I missed 3rd part; allow me to scroll down and enjoy that. 😀
How cruel of them.
We actually waited for about thirty to forty minutes before they finally let us in. I think they have some rules and regulations because a guide has to be present all the time while visitors are there. Maybe it was closing hours.
You could have asked for a cup of tea at Serena. I don't really know the rules around dining in at that place. It's definitely a hotel, but I guess it only serves guests checking in for a stay. I'm not sure, really.
As for us, the hotel and tourism was shut down amid Covid.
We were tight on the clock. Had to get back to our rooms and get ready for a dinner arranged by an acquaintance who was kind of our host too.
And guess what? We still didn't get time to freshen up and 2 hours later, we were sitting in a dining hall, meeting people with sunburns on our skin and sand in our hair and clothes.. 😅
(Before Fort, we were at the desert.)