The theme revolves around the mystery of Shangri-la and Shambala, tying the fictional world of James Hilton's Lost Horizon and Nicholas Roerich's paintings to the real world here in Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan. The film is much too long for this little travelpod (I tried).
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The question of what exactly Shangri-La is becomes the key to the mystery. For most, the image has been synonymous with the idea of the Holy Grail – an ideal that one searches for all their life and never obtains unless one is proven worthy.
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Some time later, The Shangri-La Diet swept... the econoblogosphere, anyway.  People including some respectable economists tried it, found that it actually seemed to work, and told their friends. ... The Shangri-La Diet is unfortunately named - I would have called it "the set-point diet".  And even worse,
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Bhutan is the best-kept secret in the travel industry. ... Due to its relative isolation, the country is not known to the outside world and until 1960, western visitors rarely visited the country. Today still, few people know of the beauty of Bhutan. The few who do visit this magical place find The mountains are magnificent,
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Such was Conway s first glimpse of Shangri-La, the hidden lamasery in Tibet as described in James Hilton s novel, Lost Horizon. ... Shambhala, another name for Shangri-La, was reputed to lie in or north of Tibet, where seemingly impassable mountains enclosed secret valleys that were both fertile and verdurous.
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15 Days Shangri-la Ecology Adventure Tour ... He lived in Tibetan areas in China from 1920's to 1949. He was the Leader of the US National Geographic Society Yunan-Sichuan Expedition 1927-1930. The author of "Seeking the Mountains of Mystery", "Life among the Lamas of Choni", "Through the Great River Trenches of Asia"
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Michael Wood searches for the truth beind the myth of Shangri-La. ... Michael Wood explores the historical and religious background to the Shangri-La myth of an earthly paradise ... And Tibet in the 1930s was still a land of mystery, one of the last unmapped places, a forbidden and insular country.
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Shangri-La, you ask? Can it be that mythical place? That’s what I’m here to discover. ... Journey to Shangri-La ... It seems that, in 1995, Tibetan scholar Xuan Ke deduced that Shangri-La -- the utopia described by British author James Hilton in his 1933 book Lost Horizon -- was based on the Deqing Prefecture.
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