Escape from Shangri-la
October 24th 2007 Shangrila was traditionally know as Zhongdian, but sometime in the last 20 years or so, changed its name purely to encourage tourism by linking its name to the fictional valley and lamasery depicted in the 1947 novel The Lost Horizon by James Hilton. (The ruse is ironic, because like the Hotel California, the Shangri-La of the book was a place you could never leave, hardly a place to entice touri
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