In Zhongdian ("Shangri-La")
In the northwest of the Chinese province Yunnan
In 2001 the city was renamed as Shangri-La "after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, in an effort to promote tourism in the area." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_City
This new name is of course complete nonsense, because there's absolutely no evident connection between this excellent novel and this beautiful place with one insignificant exception: the city is located at an elevation of 3,160 m (10,370 ft) in the Himalayan foothills and the setting of the novel is somewhere in the Himalaya.
Here you see a street in the modern part of the city.
In Zhongdian ("Shangri-La")
In the northwest of the Chinese province Yunnan
In 2001 the city was renamed as Shangri-La "after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, in an effort to promote tourism in the area." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_City
This new name is of course complete nonsense, because there's absolutely no evident connection between this excellent novel and this beautiful place with one insignificant exception: the city is located at an elevation of 3,160 m (10,370 ft) in the Himalayan foothills and the setting of the novel is somewhere in the Himalaya.
Here you see a street in the modern part of the city.