Rickety bridge

Shangri-La???

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September 17th 2006
We arrived at the Banyan Tree Resort Ringha, which is in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, early morning Saturday 16th Sept. It is reputed to be the valley of Shangri La referred to in Milton's Lost Paradise. We checked into our Tibetan Suite room, which is basically in one half of a Tibetan house that had been, with others, relocated to the resort, and refitted to capture the es ... 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