User:MrFidaAliEngr/Manthal

Manthal is located on Sadpara road some 6 km from Skardu town. It is awsomely beatiful in summer and it attracts visitors in good numbers. It is an ancient place which holds ancient carvings on very large stones. According to folk tales there existed an ancient civilisation. It is said that Sadpara lake was miraculously formed when a saint visited there and asked for food in ancient times but none helped him except an old lady who presented food to him. The saint advised the old lady to climb the nearby mountain and not to see back untill she reached the top which did with her grandaughter on her back but saw back after reaching some height. Meanwhile a lake was formed in her village. She wished herself to become stone which soon happened. Please do not believe. It is only myth and there is no factual account of the later part of this story.