Shangri-La

After the two days of walking we were ready for some rest. Shangri-La is an ideal chilled out place for a rest. A really interesting place, with a few different names, but i'm going to stick with Shangri-La for the purposes of this post. The Shangri-La old town - which wanted to be like Lijiang's old town, was burnt down a year ago. I'm not sure if it's because of this, or just because it's quite hard to get to, there seemed to be no tourists there. A very nice place to relax and walk around. There is a monastery just outside town to go see. We rolled along on a bus to go and see it. It's pretty expensive once you get there. Still probably worth seeing if you've never been to Tibet (like me). There is a large Tibetan influence in Shangri-La - we tried some yak, and various other Tibentan foods. It was strange and unlike anything I'd ever eaten before - but it was still quite nice. Yak butter milk tea was a bit too rich for me though! For those wondering, yak tastes exactly like beef. After all this relaxing in Shangri-La, we needed something to do. We searched the town high and low for Yak wool jumpers. The closest we could find were outrageously coloured hoodies. They were promptly purchased.

Other than that, there's not that much to say about the place. It's cold. It's pleasant. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.