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Looking For Bliss In The Land Of Shangri-La

By Lizzie Simon On my last night in the Yunnan Province in rural Southwest China, I encountered 3 handsome, blond horses lingering at the entrance of my reconstructed Tibetan lodge. They had wandered in from one particular of the neighboring Naxi tribe’s wheat farms. I had spent the entire week creating speak to with exotica, and that evening, like every single evening, I approached bedtime with equal elements exhaustion and excitement. Earlier, at dusk, I had spied these identical horses mingling with the yaks, pigs and sheep across the gently babbling brook that just barely separates the resort and the nearby Chinese Tibetans going about the day-to-day rituals they’ve enacted for centuries. And now they have been at my door, maybe filled with the exact same curiosity with which I had viewed them. In the Yunnan Province, the seamlessness among one’s check out, the astounding organic elegance and the ancient genuine culture is exquisite. And it is this rare seamlessness that makes t...