Shiner Hotel Shangri-La

... through the small farming villages, saw some really nice scenery of the mountains and the really blue sky. <br>had our first bit of yaks butter tea today wit some barley flour mixed in, which me and Ben ate copiously only to have the woman that gave it to us tell us not to eat too much as it isn't good for your tum...gee, thanks for telling us before we gauged ourselves.<br><br> <br>

... off somewhere where we could rent jackets, now fully prepared we set off again for the lakes. When we arrived we had to get to grips with a queing system that could only have been invented by the chinese but 30 mins later we were on a bus taking us to the first lake.<br><br>The first lake (shoudo hai) was pretty but not spectacular, the walk around it took ahbout 40 mins unfortunatly I had forgotten to charge my camera the night befor so I couldnt get asmany ...

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... it, but despite the sales girl's promise that it would last a year, we didn't fancy its chances at the bottom of Caragh's bag for another three months. <br><br> <br><br>Surprisingly (after Dali and Lijiang's ubiquitous scarves and marble shops), we enjoyed window shopping in Shangri-La. They have great little Tibetan 'antique' shops that sold original silver pieces and Tanakas (as well as some tat of course!). There is also a ...

... and shangrila county<br><br>shangri-la was really neat though. it had an old town as well that was alot less touristy. sometimes a tibetan looking person would jsut walk a herd of yak through town. it was funny<br><br>we ate some bbq street food here and met a tibetan chinese lady named daisy that owned a ...

... the last bits of an excellent egg and tomato breakfast. Our drivers loud cellphone chatting forewarned us of his imminent arrival before he was announced by our hostess. Multiple guest houses in the Tiger Leaping Gorge area competed for business, running minibuses to and from the beginning of the trail was one method of acquiring tourist dollars. This bus often stopped at unnamed locations to pickup riders and stragglers. That was how we met Karla and ...

... land, isolated from the outside world by high mountains. But also other places in the Buddhist Tibetan Himalaya region claim to be the real Shangri-la, from Tsaparang in modern Tibet, to isolated Bhutan,to the Hunza valley in Pakistan's border region with Tibet, a place that James Hilton has visited before he published his novel.So I arrived now in one of the maybe a dozen of ...

... it on there is a high chance of interbreeding and the panda sperm not working. They live in the rainforest which makes their black and white fur completely un-camouflaged and their diet of bamboo totally un-nutritious. To make things even worse, despite their size they have no defense against predators. Have they ever heard of Charles Darwin? Its only because of artificial insemination at this breeding sanctuary that they are not extinct. Afterwards we headed to ...

... Lijiang which is like tourist town on steroids. We spent the afternoon walking around the big monastery there. It was full of monks of all ages, with lots of temples, and chanting going on. We ended up talking to a couple of monks, they all thought I was the guys translator. We met a really old monk that had such a thick accent no one could understand him. No hard feat for me.

... to climb. We went to watch the locals dance in the square of the new town, this is a popular evening activity with tibetans and isn't put on for tourists. Tibetan dancing is fairly simple, a bit like line dancing from the states. Got an afternoon bus to QiauTou, a small town at the start of the poplar treck in the Tiger leaping gourge. We searched for a pub, you know drinking establishment with maybe music. Well they don't know here, following loud ...