Lost Horizon

ONE STRANGE TRIP DOWN THE COSMIC HIGHWAY

Shangri-La is a mythical earthly paradise, isolated from the rest of the world somewhere deep in a mountain pass. The fictional utopia is said to be located peacefully at the base of a harmonious valley full of exoticism, orient and spirituality. British Author, James Hilton famously illustrates Shangri-La in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon as a permanent happy land whose inhabitants have become almost immortal. He describes the valley as both a physical and spiritual paradise where the people are happy and without want. In ancient Tibetan scriptures, Shangri-La is believed to be located in Asia, hidden somewhere in the Kunlun Mountains on the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. But after a profoundly strange trip through Southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, I’m not too sure. We just might have found the real Shangri-La right here in our own backyard.

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