An easy day, we visit another fort. This one has been turned into an up market hotel. Skardu is so different to Gilgit and the other towns we have seen. There is redevelopment here as well as many educational institutions. We see lots of well dressed children going to and from school. The biggest surprise though, was to meet the manager of the Fort hotel...a woman!! She isn't just the first woman in a senior role we have seen in a hotel, she is the only woman in any role in a hotel or any other establishment we have seen. Hoorah, finally some hope for improvement in Pakistan.
As Richard put it, "there is more affluence and less effluence in Skardu!" To finish the day we have the opportunity to watch a polo match.
At supper time, Karim has to break the news that we cannot fly back to Islamabad. There is only one plane and it is broken!
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