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Zhongdian Slideshow
Zhongdian
Travel Blogs from Zhongdian, China
Shangrila
We flew from Lhasa to Shangri-La. The Lhasa airport is hilarious. Security is a bit questionable and certainly a lot easier than our friend Heathrow airport. Shangri-la is nestled between some immense snow cover peaks, and if time was on our side we ...
Shangri-La...Not Quite!!
... architecture and the local villages were significantly more rustic than those we had seen so far. When we landed in Shangri La, AKA Zhongdian, we quickly found a cab with a reasonable price to take us to the old town and within the hour were at our ...
ZhongDian (alias Shangrila)
After Lost Horizon, ZhongDian, according to the Chinese, should be Shangrila, the city of ethernal ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
... Peaceful, traditional Naxi tribe's house / Hot shower, Clean toilet / Han Chian, Naxi food or Western food. » The trip to Zhongdian : Minibus / SSSS / L & R / Y15 / 2.5 hours Plenty of buses ply the road up to around 17pm. You wave at them when they ...
On a Clear Day You Can See Lhasa
What a day!!!! Today will go down as one of the best vacation days ever. We visited the Songzanlin Monastary and Shangri-La old town. We were supposed to travel to the national park but the weather was so good that our guide, Pelchin, took ...
Food I love - yay!
... through the high road alongside the Gorge! The best thing about Quitao though is I've found food (for the first time in China) that I actually really enjoyed! And no - unfortunately it wasn't McDonalds! Richard couldn't believe it though cos I wolfed ...
Shangrila
... to China) located his Shangri-La in the Kunlun mountains. However, elements of his story were apparently inspired by National Geographic articles about various places in eastern Tibet (including Zhongdian); hence China's rationale for claiming the name. ...
China's Traffic
Moving around in China is a different experience, whether it be by automobile or as a pedestrian. Drivers in China are amazing as they are able to manuver their way through intersections without accidents. If traffic is congested...which is most of the ...
A bit disappointed
We have struggled so hard to get to Shangrila, traveled through such beautiful country and met the Tibetan culture not too trammeled by outside influences. There are no snow capped mountains but streets dedicated to hordes of tourists. "Hordes of ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
I finally got of my arse and went to do the tiger leaping gorge trek. It was absolutely beautiful. We were 6 people and it was much fun. Of course we made a new (slowest) record since it took as 6 hours the first day and 8 on the second and we spent 2 ...
Bai Shui Tai
... as they showed us the ingredients they could cook for us with. The kitchen was filthy with a wet concrete floor. No surprise for China… We were ushered into a dimly lit room next door filled with round tables, and it wasn’t long before we ...
Shangri-la
... needed some R&R after our hard hike yesterday. In trying to keep it easy, we visited the largest Buddhist monastery in Southwest China (essentially, everywhere in China except Tibet). It was pretty mind-shattering. The most surprising element of ...
so prity but cold
hello everyone im am now in a place called shangr-la (zhongdian) its so much colder here as it sits at 3200 meters most people are tibetian and its even more relaxing than kunming there are some realy nice monistrys and temples here we also went to a lake ...