中国四川的香格里拉 － 稻城亚丁 Yading Nature Reserve, the Shangri-La in Xichuan, China

WS 15 - 中国四川的香格里拉 － 稻城亚丁 Yading Nature Reserve, the Shangri-La in Xichuan, China

香格里拉是一本英文小说中的世外桃源。为了推广旅游，中国西南部近年来有好几个地方都更名为香格里拉。在四川省的稻城县，一个原名日瓦的村庄已更名为香格里拉镇。2015年我们去了香格里拉镇的亚丁自然保护区游覽。

亚丁自然保护区是个联合国教科文组织生物圈保护区，占地1,340平方公里，非常大，景点无数，我们一天的行程也只走了几个，呆在最久的是名为洛绒牛场的草原。这里有森林，溪流，瀑布，草甸、湖泊，沙坝。可遥望雪峰，冰川。树叶已转橙黄，秋色正浓。

另一个景点是珍珠海，是一个高原湖泊。途中也路过一间数百年的古藏庙，名冲古寺。

Shangri-La is a paradise described in the 1933 English novel“Lost Horizon”, the place loosely based on an article about this region in China published in the National Geographic a few years earlier. In order to promote tourism, several places in southwest China have changed their names to Shangri-La in recent years. In Daocheng County in Sichuan Province, a village formerly known as Riwa has been renamed Shangri-La Town. In 2015, we went to visit the Yading Nature Reserve located within the Shangri-La township.

Yading Nature Reserve is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, covering an area of 1,340 sq km. It is very large and has countless attractions. We only covered a few attractions during our day trip. The longest stay was around the grassland called Luorong Pasture. There are forests, streams, waterfalls, meadows, lakes, and sand bars, etc, with snow peaks and glaciers in the distance. The leaves have turned orange-yellow, signifying autumn is here. 

Other attractions are a highland lake and an ancient Tibetan temple.