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Where Is Shangri-La?

Posted by Intelligent Travel on August 21, 2012
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A monk outside a temple in Shangri-La. (Photograph by William Guo, My Shot)

Since James Hilton imagined Shangri-La in his bestselling 1933 novel Lost Horizon, a host of Himalayan areas have laid claim to this earthly Eden. But only one place—Zhongdian in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province—has officially gone by the name Shangri-La County since 2001.