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[quote=AIQIU222 ,5527]Hi guysCheers for the advice. It's quite amusing, I had this converstation with my Chinese students so was aware of the name/reality clash. I was asking for advice on where to go and they all said Xian ge li la. I couldn't hear it at first and then they wrote it down, told me it was the most beautiful place in China, then I connected the sound to Shangri La and told them that in the West it is considered a mythical place, that it wasn't real, the place where dreams come true and they were persuading me that it was a real place.Then someone else told me that it is actually the whole of Tibet that is Shangri La.I love following up on literary allusions (it's one of the reasons I like Italy so much); that whole question of the chicken and the egg, does something exist or does it become something because people BELIEVE it exists, eg: God? When does fiction become reality? That's why I decided I wanted to go to Deqin. The Chinese government, I'm sure they will have chosen a beautiful place. Like you said Mermaid, the scenery must be beautiful to try and convince anyone it is Shangri La!Anyway, all this philosophising may come to nothing, I'm not sure my funds will last long enough to get there!! I suppose reality has to intrude even in the personal quest for Shangri La. I'll try and keep a rein on my romantic idealism.Elcabron,thankyou for the reality check, Mermaid, thankyou for keeping the dream alive, perhaps its the journey that counts not the destination.Woah, long post, I'll stop now. Bye[/quote]
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