Tolti Kharmang


Tolti is a city that serves as the administrative capital of Kharmang District, Gilgit Baltistan. It means "Little Tibet". The village lies on the left bank of the Indus, and is approximately 35 km south-east of the confluence of the Indus from the Shayok. It is today by a well-paved road that runs along the left bank of the Indus slightly from Skardu to reach out.

History

Tolti before 1840 belonged to the dominion of Kartaksho, one of the six small kingdoms Baltistan, but was ruled as a function of Karthaksho over longer time periods of one raja own family. Shortly after Tolti starts today a southern exclusion zone, so that from here onward travel after the Kharmang a few kilometers away.\