Opening Up Shangri-la
For more than a thousand years, this tiny, intriguing kingdom has survived in isolation a place the size of Switzerland hidden in the mountains between two adjacent giants, India and China. Closed off from the outside world both by geography and government policy, the country had no roads, electricity, motor vehicles, telephones, or postal service until the 1960s Ancient temples sit high on misty cliffs; sacred unconquered mountains rise above untouched rivers and forests; a grand wooden chalets is inhabited by a kind, fatherly king and one of his four wives, all sisters. For many visitors Bhutan brings to mind analogies to Shangri-la, the exotic, isolated Himalayan paradise from James Hilton's 1933
Opening Up Shangri-laFor more than a thousand years, this tiny, intriguing kingdom has survived in isolation a place the size of Switzerland hidden in the mountains between two adjacent giants, India and China. Closed off from the outside world both by geography and government policy, the country had no roads, electricity, motor vehicles, telephones, or postal service until the 1960s Ancient temples sit high on misty cliffs; sacred unconquered mountains rise above untouched rivers and forests; a grand wooden chalets is inhabited by a kind, fatherly king and one of his four wives, all sisters. For many visitors Bhutan brings to mind analogies to Shangri-la, the exotic, isolated Himalayan paradise from James Hilton's 1933
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