China: Diqing Tibetan Region Reopens to Foreigners

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | April 17th, 2008 | Trackback

While Tibet remains closed to foreign tourists, the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province reopened to all visitors April 10 after being closed for almost a month. The region is home to the tourist resort of Shangri-la, a place formerly known as Zhongdian but renamed in 2001 to cash in on the fabled secret land from James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon. Local Tibetans call the area Gyalthang.

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