Tag: Shangri-La


Becoming Shangri-La Adventuriety

Our journey to Shangri-La began in Hutiaoxia or Tiger Leaping Gorge Town, where we pulled over in a busy parking area, hugged Denise good-bye and met Sarah amid cars honking and trying to back out of spaces and the couple that ran across the street to ask us about bus schedules and hiking…in Spanish.  Scott and the kids were able to not only have a conversation, but...

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Being Dutch in Lijiang Adventuriety

This year has taught me that when we disembark on the tarmac it is usually a sign of impending good adventure.  This was true in Tanzania, the Galapagos and now Lijiang in China’s Yunnan province.  Yunnan is located in southwest China in the eastern part of the Himalayas, sharing a border with Burma, Laos, and Vietnam in the south and Tibet in the northwest.  The...

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