The non-fiction nominal Shangri-la
May 30th 2007 The trip to Zhongdian only took 2.5 hours but it seemed like we were entering a different country. The climbing road levelled out onto a plateau on which low pink- and purple-flowered bushes were commonplace (and were being picked), women were wearing pink-hatted outfits, yaks started putting in an appearance as did a profusion of shops selling yak tail brushes, the buildings were unmistakably dif
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