Shangri-la

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Shangri-la is located in northwest of Yunnan province, as the hinterland for “Shangri-la tour”. Along the Yunnan-Tibet highway 315km away from the Dali, you will arrive in the central town of Zhongqian couty in Diqing Tibet Autonomous Prefecture. Diqing means“places of everything goes well”. As location at the south-eastern edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, north of southern Hengduan mountains, and the hinterland of “Three Parallel Rivers”, forming the unique melting snow-capped mountains, canyons, grasslands, alpine lakes, forests and national customs as one of the landscape, multi-purpose travel relics.


There are lots of snow-mountains in the scenic area, and more than 470 mountains with altitude higher than 4000m only in Zhongdian county. The famous gorges include Tiger-jump gorge of Jingsha River and gorge of Langcang River. In addition, the vast alpine grassland pastures, dotted with luxuriant virgin forests, and alpine lakes. All of these make the magic natural landscape with dangerous but quiet scenery.


Tibet, Lisu, Han, Naxi, Yi, Bai, Hui total of 13 kinds of people resident at there. Under the harmony life, every ethnic keep their special characteristics in the way of life, clothing, residential construction and wedding customs and other traditional customs.


“Shangri-la” is an eternal peace and tranquility land described in the novel of Lost Horizon which was wrote by James Hiltion in 1933. And Diqing occupies all the details describe in James novel. More coincidental is that”Shangri-la” is the Tibetan meaning “Sun and moon of heart”, which is the ideal living place and high level compass. Diqing plateau is the Shangri-la looking for half century.