Since James Hilton imagined Shangri-La in his bestselling 1933 novel Lost Horizon ... The Songzanlin Monastery and surrounding city is seen from a distance. (Photograph by Stephan Schwaabe ...

[Mark Frank/China.org.cn] Like the utopia depicted in Lost Horizon, Shangri-la is home to a large number ... light several kilometers away from the city. He owns a couple of Tibetan mastiffs ...

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. Hidden from the rest of the ...

In other words, to a Shangri-La. Lost Horizon was a tale for its times. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon (1933).

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the ...