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Southwest China Field Trip: Life's Good In Shangri-La, But Not For Yaks
All this week, Jaunted special embed Claire Duffett will be relaying the joys and jumbles of her travels through Southwest China including Tibet. Finally, she reaches Shangri-La:
Oh, Shangri-La. In a cynical attempt to drum up tourism, the Chinese government renamed the town of Zhongdian, which is a pleasant city with a lovely old town, after the fictional Utopia in Lost Horizon. Copies of the book are sold in every shop, so we read it, and no, there’s really no similarity between the fictional land and the town in northwestern Yunnan. But it is TIbetan, and that's cool.
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China Bans Tourists From Tibet To Lower Riot Risk...Again
If you're not already in Tibet today, it's going to be a little while before you're allowed to enter the region. The Chinese government has stopped issuing the special permits that foreigners require to enter Tibet and won't let any tourists in again until October 8.
This kind of behavior is, of course, nothing new. China spent decades banning tourists from Tibet until it was opened up a bit in the 1980s, and banned foreigners again in March 2008 in response to rioting.
