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Shangri-la
香格里拉
Would you like the chance to discover a place of mystery and beauty in the south-west of China?
想有發現中國西南神秘并美麗的地方的機會嗎？
If your answer is ‘yes’, consider a trip to Shangri-la!
如果答案是肯定的，到香格里拉來吧！
How to get there
行程
Start in the city of Dali and drive north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway until you reach Zhongdian (Shangri-la), the capital of Diqing.
從大理出發，沿滇藏公路南行，至迪慶縣城中甸（香格里拉）。
Zhongdian is 659 kilometres away from Kunming, and there are regular flights between the two cities.
中甸距昆明659公里，并且兩個城市間有固定航班。
The world-famous Chinese Shangri-la
世界聞名的中國香格里拉
The word ‘Shangri- la’ first appeared in a classic novel by James Hilton.
“香格里拉”一詞源于詹姆斯·希爾頓的一部經典小說。
Today, Shangri-la has become a common English word meaing heaven on earth.
今天，香格里拉也經成為一個很普及的英語單詞，意思是地球上的天堂。
Hilton described a beautiful kingdom where three rivers joined together,
作者描述了一個美麗的王國。在那里，三條河流交匯在一起；
steep mountains reached to the sky, and fields of long grass covered the earth.
陡峭的群山高聳入云，腳下深草成茵，覆蓋大地。
In this perfect world lived people who had discovered how to stay young forever.
在這個完美世界里住著的人知道如何永葆青春。
Which place could officially take the name of this wonderful land?
什么地方能夠正式得到這片奇妙土地的名字呢？
There were arguments over which tourist spot would win the name of Shangri-la.
對于哪個旅游景點能夠贏得“香格里拉”這個名字頗有爭議。
Many years after the book was published, some people realized that the Shangri-la of the novel was a perfect match for Zhongdian in Yunnan Province, China.
這本書出版多年后，有人認識到小說中的香格里拉完整的描述了中國云南省中甸縣。
In September 1997, the government of Yunnan Province announced that Zhongdian was the Shangri-la is in Hilton's story.
1997年9月，云南省政府聲明中甸就是希爾頓故事里的香格里拉。
