Shangri-La is Shangri-la means, in my mind is a beautiful and wonderful vocabulary. It makes me think of flowers blooming hillsides, simple people, people from different places live in harmony, warm and comfortable, safe and well-being. Perhaps it is just a feeling, not a real existence.

I arrived at the foot of Cangshan, Erhai side of the ancient city of Dali in Yunnan Province, when is the busiest tourist season. After 2-hour flight from Guangzhou to Kunming, 5-hour car trip and then to Dali, my husband and I walk through the old city, a small stone-paved streets. Here is Bai ancient residential buildings, each building has a painted black and white pattern features, antique. Living within the ancient city with many local residents, but also Dali, one of the most famous tourist attractions.

However, impressed me the most is not the city building, but this place is not like other tourist areas, noisy and full of competition, and business travelers who want fishing at one. Here, people are the same as back home, harmony, tranquility. The ancient city of the small river can be seen everywhere wearing plain neat local residents, the women holding children, children at play, young people gather in small groups Guangzhao shop. Visitors looked easy walk in the streets, their faces completely without travelers often Pibi and tension. Moreover, many foreign tourists dressed very casually, feet suck slippers, as if walking on his own doorstep. The same street so many different people, no one voted to others to envy and curious eyes, everyone was so natural.

Many residents of the ancient city of operation and tourism-related business, or a restaurant, or operating a small craft. Different from other tourist areas, the small seeds of hawkers selling to large shops selling handicrafts, and no one stood up loudly soliciting, all business rules in their own outlets, stepped into the shop to meet you is the owner The smile, in their hearts, their own customers into the shop, outside the shop is our guest. Items are clearly marked price, the price is reasonable, fair trade. We have four to play to the marble from the ancient city of Shimonoseki, the same road, all taxi drivers are exclusively offer 30 million, which is not the driver see that we are visitors to open 40 or 50 the price, nor did the driver see the competition intense and opening price of 25. I have tried to bargain with a driver, the driver who smiled and said to me: "Miss, we are here, are the same price." Our dining areas are洋人街, here is the most common foreign tourists gather place. Every restaurant in this street is the form of bars, simple and plain, full of foreign flavor, reception staff will be fluent in English. We looked for a street restaurant, sitting on a plain wood bench, covered with flowers on the table cloth, decorated with calla lily in full bloom. We entered the door, a smile which greeted the owner, invited us to a la carte, and does not recommend expensive dishes to us. 15 yuan to a curry came, the steak is a washbasin diameter plate, which greatly stacked four steak and curry the same hill, even the biggest appetite of foreigners can not not eat. Gradually the sky dark, and洋人街on foreigners increased, they sit in the bar to eat drink and looked relaxed as if in their own country's rural small restaurants, I have heard that some foreign tourists stay in Dali ancient city is a lot of days. Looked at people of different backgrounds live in harmony this way, everyone seemed to like in their own homes, I have a feeling of living in Shangri-La.

In fact, better than Old Town of Lijiang ancient city of Dali, as Sau Nga beautiful, antique, but it gives people a real life, people think that it is not a tourist area, but live where people believed to come from different parts of the world, where people can be live very well. In the alleged real Shangri-La Zhongdian, although I appreciate the beautiful highland lake Bita Lake, the vast ira grassland, antique Tibetan temple Songzanlinsi, scenic Dali in no way inferior beautiful scenery, but Tourist attractions often dirty streets, stations cunning to pull guests, unsatisfactory service, I did not appreciate the sense of Shangri-La.

Dali's tourism management may be more standardized, and perhaps longer history of tourism development, but I also believe that the hearts of people in Dali, there are more important than material things, it is indifferent to life, and tranquility, they do not want to live in their own home into a tourist area because it becomes a materialistic place, unwilling to let the friendship of the neighbors into a knife Ge opposite competitors, but is unwilling to come home visitors felt they did not return home because of the feeling, perhaps Dali, who gave me the quality of this Shangri-La feel.

Author: zhaowanlan