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Shangri-La Slideshow
Top Hotels in Shangri-La
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Holy Palace Hotel Shangri-La
36 reviews -
Paradise Hotel Shangri-La
74 reviews -
Aviation Sightseeing Hotel Diqing Shangri-La
7 reviews
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Songtsam Retreat At Shangri-La
118 reviews -
Gyalthang Dzong Hotel Shangri-La
38 reviews -
Banyan Tree Ringha Shangri-La
120 reviews
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Shiner Hotel Shangri-La
13 reviews
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Huan Tai Hotel Shangri-La
15 reviews
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Diqing Hotel Shangri-La
2 reviews
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Xinhua Hotel Diqing Shangri-La
2 reviews
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Ge Sang Garden Inn Shangri-La
44 reviews
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Xianggelila Shuizhuang Hotel Shangri-La
1 review -
Phoenix Inn Shangri-La
3 reviews
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Shambala Ranch Hotel Shangri-La
8 reviews
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Songtsam Hotel Shangri-La
132 reviews -
Zhaxidele Hotel Shangri-La
8 reviews
Shangri-La
Travel Blogs from Shangri-La, China
Toucan Sam Smells a Toilet and Other News
This is a top pick! ... scores of cookies We want to know: who fed the most honored elephant scores of cookies? A Tourist's Guide to Shangri-la Since the Lonely Planet China never can get the Shangri-la area right, I thought I'd help, with a guide to Shangri-la. Here ...
Farewell Jonathan
This is a top pick! ... and crashes confounded things, however. Despite the brownouts and crashes, fall has arrived in the forests, fields and lakes of Shangri-la. The pastures are browning, the Black-necked Cranes have returned for the winter, snow adorns the peaks ringing ...
Shangri-La
This is a top pick! ... and we enjoyed soaking up the landscape as we meandered alongside the lakes and through delightful wooded valleys. It was a bit 'Shangri-La revisited' as humming birds hovered and flocks of brightly-coloured parrots did their thing. We were even serenaded ...
Waiting In Limbo
This is a top pick! ... . When the doldrums fade and the wind begins to blow, I'll hear my answer. Until then, I'm still volunteering here in Shangri-la with WWF-China. I returned to Shangri-la on July 24. Before that, I was waiting for my passport and visa to come ...
Shangri-tra-la-la
This is a top pick! ... without stop or delay. They must be doing this every day... for their own fun. The clouds clear out and I start liking Shangri-la. I'm easy to please (hopefully no ex-boyfriends read this). The horse racing festival is a true spectacle. The guys ...
The Dogs of Zhongdian
This is a top pick! The Dogs of Zhongdian Starring Fluffy, Zac, 'Bella, Stripe, Toto, and Rex Fluffy is alone, wandering the people-filled streets of Zhongdian. She is silent as she walks down the sidewalk. Fluffy continues and reaches an intersection. It begins ...
Will tourism save Shangri-la?
This is a top pick! China's Shangri-La is gateway to region's tourism, prosperity - Los Angeles Times The economic downturn is slowing tourism worldwide. The slowdown - combined with tightened entry rules for the Beijing Olympics, a catastrophic earthquake and Tibetan ...
"Traveling" with WWF
This is a top pick! For the month of December, I have been in Shangri-la working with WWF, although technically I should say that I'm still a tourist, as the Public Security Bureau (PSB) has granted me my last visa extension until I get a business visa--I'm getting the boot ...
Travel guide for Shangri-la
This is a top pick! ... Dream," also serves as a first-rate guide to the places in Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, India and China considered possible locations that inspired Shangri-La. I asked Buckley via email about mythomania, the lure of the mountain paradise, and what we're really ...
Hamugu and the Wise Elder
This is a top pick! Just a short distance west of Zhongdian lies Hamugu, a small Tibetan village with several hundred villagers. After visiting the Yangtze River villages, Gomba, Xiao Lin, and I joined others in the WWF crew--Doji, Jinhui, and his son--to head to this ...
The Real Shangri-la
This is a top pick! ... 20-minute film, The Real Shangri-la is now finished. Here are some frames from the film, developed for WWF, the Shangri-la Institute for Sustainable Communities, and the Shangri-la Sustainable Communities Initiative. The purpose of the film is to ...
European help for energy alternatives
This is a top pick! ... mean Danish . . . Shangri-la to use Denish loan for urban heating construction 10:13, December 15, 2009 Shangri-la County, Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, will use a 22.56 million Euros (about 225 million yuan) ...
Sweet Innocent Killer and the Final Cut
This is a top pick! ... so well, we ended up doing most everything together during that time, including watching Scene, Song, and Dance Medley of Shangri-la (see photographs). Killer had just begun working with WWF and was planning a conference on ecotourism. She was here ...
The Lamb Lays Down...
This is a top pick! ... Still, it all felt like a process that I needed to go through. At the end, I made my decision: I was leaving WWF and Shangri-la. Why? "I feel that I still need to walk the earth, like Caine from Kung Fu." "I promised that I would stay a ...
The New (Pollution) Philosophy
This is a top pick! ... , tea, and silk that exchanged hands between East and West, so too are Eastern and Western philosophies blending. In China, they are adopting Western concepts of modernization, logic, and rationality. In the West, they are adopting Eastern thoughts of ...
Visitors up in Shangri-la
This is a top pick! ... the Three Parallel Rivers -- the Jinsha, Lancang and Nujiang rivers originating from the Qinghai Plateau. Known for tourist attraction "Shangri-la," considered as the paradise on the earth, Deqen had held nine activities to promote local tourism in the ...
Hello from Shangri-la, North Western Yunnan
This is a top pick! Hello from Shangri-la. The government rename this area Shanggulila which is Chinese for Shangri-la. They say this is the area where Shangri-la from the book is. So much to tell and not time to tell it. I'll try to update this entry when I get ...
Leaping Tiger, Jade Dragon, Slack Arsed Horse
This is a top pick! ... on it's edge - you'd better hurry if you want to check it out! Currently, we're on the border of Tibet, in a town called Shangri-La (yes it's real name - I finally found it!). It's feckin' pissin' doon tho and is bloody freezing so we're stuck inside ...
Shangri La
... by cows and yaks at such high altitudes, we waited at the station for our pickup to our guesthouse....Harmony Guesthouse (quite fitting for Shangri La, i'm sure you'll agree). The car could only take us so far. So on foot we climbed the cobbled streets of ...
Shangri-La and Meili snow mountains
Sweet memories in Shangri-La and Meili snow mountains, in where PandaMo has been asked to marry PandaBen ...
Ihmeellinen ja myyttinen Shangri-La
2000-luvun alussa Zhongdian oli viela unelias Tiibetilainen pikkukaupunki. Yunnanin provinssi, kuulu uskomattomista maisemistaan ja kirjavista vahemmistoryhmistaan oli alkanut paasta jo lansimaalaisten matkailijoiden reittisuunnitelmiin. ...
The lost horizon
Well, it only took 2 hours to reach Shangri-La (or Zhongdian). the town is situated at an alititude of 3200 metres, so it feels harder to walk up hills and the like. Mark helped us find a hostel in the old town, which is very pretty, lots of old buildings ...
Shangri-la - nieudane plany
... Dali wpadly na pomysl aby do promocji miasta uzyc bestellera z lat 30 'Lost Horizon', przechrzcili nazwe z Zhongdian na ksiazkowe Shangri-la i zaczeli liczyc kase ;). Zreszta niedlugo pozniej okazalo sie, ze rowniez 2 inne miasta pretenduja do tej nazwy ...
Regarder CCTV
... les tendances d'un pays, les publicites sur CCTV sont assez frappantes. Elles tournent autour du luxe et de la reussite materielle, nottament les publicites pour les voitures. Le reste se repartit entre les publicites touristiques tres lechees pour des ...
Shangri La
... at the bus stop and made us get off although admittedly we didn't argue! The Monastery is definitely worth the trip to Shangri La its a working monastery complex with 600 monks there are so many different temples which you can walk around you have to ...
Shangrila-la
16/09 Hel We arrive in Shangrila-la a little dejected after leaving Tibet, however arrive to find its a cute little village with an old town full of cobbled streets, wooden houses with slate rooves and red lanterns everywhere. As its still quite a high ...
Thoughts Upon Leaving Yunnan
... you step away from the well beaten tourist drags, it is very easy to become enchanted. The mountain ranges between Lijiang and Shangri-la, including Yulong Xueshan and Haba Shan, to mention just two we hiked between, were magnificent and mesmerising. The ...
Back on paved roads
... example pushing the car and a lot of bad music). Compared to the places we visited in Western Sichuan (Kangding, Danba, Litang), Shangri-la is very developed. Of course, tourism is also coming to these Tibetan areas in Sichuan, but English is still very ...
Shangri-La City
... 7 and spent 9 years there. He also took us to a Tibetan house - the bottom floor is for the animals and the people live on the top floor. Everything in Tibet has stunning murals. In Shangri-La Old City, he took us to the biggest prayer wheel in the ...