Last Shangri-La

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia — a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. 

Earthly Paradise existed in fairy tales and cartoons to enthrall the minds of those who seek and love peace but did anyone ever considered if earthly paradise really existed or not? Well people have found out the similar places of "skypiea" (a land in the sky from the Japanese Anime One Piece) on earth but have we ever wondered where the Last Shangri-la existed. 

Well what is Shangri-la? It is a mystical place where peacefulness prevails and finds the wonderful and covetous, exotic valley with heart-warming people. Yes, Shangri-la does exist but not in the every parts of the world rather in Asia between two huge demanding and powerful country China (to the North) and India (to the South). Bhutan: The Land of The Thunder Dragon is known as the last Shangri-la by those who have visited and traveled far and beyond.  Bhutan is a small country yet one of the peaceful country in the world with just a population of over 7,000000 and focuses mostly on Gross National Happiness coined by His Majesty the Fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck . Bhutan measures it's developmental activity by GNH rather then GDP. 

Bhutan have always been an independent country and Bhutan opened to the outside world of Television in June 2, 1999, on the night of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck's silver jubilee. The best part of Bhutan is that most of the area is covered under pristine forest and still maintain's the forest coverage of about 69-72%. 

let me link you awesome readers to a webpage " http://www.livingnow.com.au/advertise/articles/33-travel/4605-bhutan--the-last-shangri-la-on-earth.html  " where Josep Law writes about Bhutan when he visited Bhutan. It is not only him who writes about Bhutan rather a lot of them but still Bhutan is not known to many. Bhutan have lots of unexplored locations and peaks that are yet to be  climbed. Bhutan maintains a tourism of "High Value Low Tourist" .

let me put on some more links which can divert you to have a wonderful moment of Bhutan " http://www.marriedtobhutan.com/  " and " http://sabrinainbhutan.blogspot.in/ " finally " http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2013/05/tiny-bhutan-redefines-progress/  "