Bussing Through Shangrila/Xianggelila/香格里拉 and Deqin/德钦
January 30th 2011 The ride to Shangrila was pretty ridiculous, especially with Mary occasionally feeding me songs from her eclectic iPod shuffle. I highly recommend taking scenic rides with opera music as background. Shangrila used to be called Zhongdian, but it was renamed after a fictitious place discovered by Joseph Rock in the book Lost Horizon in order to promote the tourism industry. Besides a taxi driver
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