Diqing Hotel Shangri-La
11 Changzheng Road Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
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Succédané de Tibet
... roulant à deux à l’heure nous précédaient sur la route.
Et puis en approchant de Shangrila, les choses s’arrangèrent un peu. Mon pestilentiel voisin étant allé fumer à la pause pipi, l’odeur presque agréable du tabac couvrait sa fragrance naturelle. La route était bonne et une vue pittoresque s’étalait devant nos yeux : des steppes et des montagnes à perte de vue, des chaumières et des stupas essaimées le long de la route, et des ...
Tiger gorge & Tiger the doggy
... 1499;סף בערים שונות ביפן. כל זאת ע"מ שנוכל לקנות את כרטיס 97; ההנחה לתחבו 12;ה הציבו 12;ית ...
Bai Shui Tai
... scenic spot, the Baishuitai is also the birthplace of Dongba culture of the Naxi Minority Group. We walked back to the road and headed across it and up some stairs. At the top of the stairs was a host of local people with horses, offering to take you to the terraces. We politely declined and began the walk. The stairs were made from decaying wooden logs. Some steps were missing all together and about 15 minutes into our treacherous climb, we began to ...
Yak heaven
Originally known as Zhongdian, Chinese authorities changed the name of this one-yak town in 2001 after it was claimed that this area was in fact the famed 'Shangri-la' from British writer James Hilton's novel 'Lost Horizon'. Several places in the Himalaya in Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan have claimed to be the location for Hilton's fictional Shangri-La but whilst they may not all be the source of inspiration for Hilton's ...
Rain
... called Zhongdian, but the very creative Chinese government decided to rename it after the 1933 novel by James Hilton, Lost Horizon that featured a fictional utopian land called Shangri-la that was supposedly tucked away in the Himalayan where people are almost immortal and live in undisturbed paradise. The government hoped this rather crass move would help boost tourism to the area... and it has. Shangri-la is considered to be a ...


