Yak Attack: A Video View of Shangri-La
Posted on December 2, 2006 - Filed Under China, Video | Leave a Comment
A video view of Zhongdian Province, the the place the Chinese have officially renamed Shangri-la.
Read Story and view in Flash Video HERE
HDTV download 720p
(Windows Media 72mb download)
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Do You Know The Way To Shangri-la - Podcast
Posted on December 2, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, China, Culture, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
So, here we are in the town square of Shangri-la, where every night villagers gather to dance? How does one get here?
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Airless Travel
Posted on November 6, 2006 - Filed Under China | Leave a Comment
I know what it means to vanish into thin air. I once flew up past Everest base camp, as far as an unpressurized helicopter could go and descended in one day. I was sick for days. I spent a week at 10 thousand-plus feet in Yunnan Province, China this spring (see our story) and fought […]
Read More..>>Featured Photo - Prayer Wheel, Zhongdian, China
Posted on May 26, 2006 - Filed Under China, Places, Photography | Leave a Comment
Photo: (c) 2006 Russell Johnson
A huge, heavy prayer wheel above Old Town Zhongdian, at the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau.The Chinese government has officially renamed the city and county Shangri-la, in a move to attract tourists.. This is a frame from an HDTV video we shot there a few weeks ago. We’ll be posting […]
Highest Tech Hotel Rises from Hong Kong’s Funkiest Burb
Posted on March 10, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Hong Kong, China, Travel Biz, Tech & Science, Places | Leave a Comment
High Tech Hotel of the Future
The Langham Place in Hong Kong’s Mongkok
by Pat Meier-Johnson & Russ Johnson
AUDIO STORY MP3
The pet emporium owner grinned as the chinchilla ran down my arm to his cage, spun around, lifted one paw, then the other, stroked its long whiskers and posed on his haunches like some cuddly Pokemon […]
