Town in Shangri-la

Town in Shangri-la

Shangrila located at Yunnan Province northeast. For “Shangrila” tourist route's center. From Dali along the Dian-Zang Highway northbound 315 kilometers, may reach Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture capital Chungtien county Zhongxin Town, is apart from the Kunming 659 kilometers, goes by plane 50 minutes to be possible to reach. Diqing, hides the meaning is " Propitious pleasant place " . Because is situated at southeast the Qinghai-Tibet Plain the edge, to traverse south the sierra northmost part the section, " Three Jiang Bingliu " The center, forms the unique friendly snowy mountain, the canyon, the prairie, the mountain lake, the virgin forest and the national character and style is a body's landscape, for multi-purpose traveling scenic spot area. In the scenic area the snowy peak is continuous, Yunnan Province high point card standard abundant peak and so on palatial grand, only within the boundaries of Zhongdian County, the elevation 4000 meters above snowy mountains reach 470 canyons to be vertically and horizontally sincere, most famous has Yangtze River Grand Canyon and so on tiger jump canyon, Lancang River canyon, has the mountain lake which again the vast mountain steppe pasture, the luxuriant virgin forest as well as spread all over, causes Diqing's natural landscape mysterious precipitous and quiet and beautiful attractive. .