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Another few hours by bus north from Lijiang and another 1000 metres higher up in altitude is Zongdian (Gyelthang in Tibetan). Zongdian was renamed Shangri-la by the Chinese government for tourism and marketing purposes. Some people choose to believe that Zhongdian is the fictional town of Shangri-La that’s featured in James Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon”. AtContinue reading “In Tibet without being in Tibet”