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My Shangri-la Travel Notes

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July 8th 2009
Shangri-la Tour, it’s a dream . Sky is blue, eminent snow mountains, draa valley, holy lakes, Grassy Plain with cows and sheep, modest people with pure mind, it’s the quintessence of harmonization between human and nature with foreverness, Serenity and peace ,this is Shangri-la my dreamy place! The British author James Hilton’s novel < Lost Horizon > described this place, we also call it as ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more