Hi Everybody! I am the Little King of Rainbow Creek. Mom says I can write the post tonight as she is asleep on the big bed.
What? Wait a minute. The dog is not going to write the post for tonight, I am awake now. He is so sneaky! His Goal is to be King of the World!! So, let's just start over.
Hi Everybody! Please come in. What a trip I have for You tonight!!!!!!!!! We are going higher, higher, highest you can be. How high is Highest? Mt Everest!
HaHa--I will just surprise You and let the trip reveal itself as we go along. We will be flying on a plane out of here, so please, get comfortable, get ready and push play> when You are ready to depart! Enjoy the flight:
Here is our destination:
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/bhutan.html
Bhutan – the Land of the Thunder Dragon – one of the
most sought after travel destinations today.
most sought after travel destinations today.
National Flower: Blue Poppy (Meconopsis Grandsis)
Locally called Euitpel metog hoem, is a delicate blue or purple tinged bloom with a white filament. It grows at high altitude.
http://www.bhutanmajestictravel.com/about-bhutan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druk_Air
a close aerial encounter with Mount Everest.
The Most Dangerous Runways of the WorldTravel journal “Travel Leisure” made the list of world most dangerous runways. Every tourist can one day appear in one of these places, so we consider it our duty to warn you to travel with your eyes wide open; you might never again see such things.
Surprise!!! You did not think getting this high would be easy!
1. Paro Airport , Bhutan
All tourists wishing to visit Bhutan and walk on the ground of fire dragon, among the holy peaks of the Himalayas, arrive at Paro. Travelers risk their lives before visiting the kingdom. It’s the only airport in the kingdom surrounded by the Himalayan peaks reaching over 6000 meters. Only a most skillful pilot can keep the plane under full control and safely pass among the slopes surrounded by high trees and not get crashed or slammed into the mountain peaks and of course manage to get on the most dangerous runway of the world.
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JUST PUSH PLAY > TO LAND THE PLANE
That was the greatest hike in the mountains I have ever been on! This is really a beautiful Country.
Do You know how we "hear" our parents words we heard as children? I am reminded of My Dad. When I was a teenager,I would sometimes say: I am going out, see you later. He would always say: Where are you going, Shangri La?? I had no idea what he was talking about or where it was. Now that I have finally found Shangri La, I wonder if he really knew where it was! Of course, I looked it up. Do You know how many Shangri Las there are?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La
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 but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia — a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. In the novel Lost Horizon, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The word also evokes the imagery ofexoticism of the Orient. In the ancient Tibetan scriptures, existence of seven such places is mentioned as Nghe-Beyul Khimpalung.[1] Khembalung is one of several beyuls ("hidden lands" similar to Shangri-La) believed to have been created byPadmasambhava in the 8th century as idylic, sacred places of refuge for Buddhists during times of strife (Reinhard 1978).
Location
Several places in the Himalaya in Nepal have claimed to be the location for Hilton's fictional Shangri-La, largely to attract tourism.
In China, the poet Tao Yuanming (陶淵明) of the Jin Dynasty (265-420) described a kind of Shangri-La in his work "The Tale of theThe Peach Blossom Spring" (simplified Chinese: 桃花源记; traditional Chinese: 桃花源記; pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì). The story goes that there was a fisherman from Wuling, who came across a beautiful peach grove, and he discovered happy and content people that lived completely cut off from the troubles in the outside world since the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE).[3] In modern China, theZhongdian county was renamed to Xiānggélǐlā (香格里拉, Shangri-La in Chinese) in 2001, to attract tourists. The legendary Kun Lun Mountains (昆侖山) offer another possible place for the Shangri-La valleys.
A popularly believed physical inspiration for Hilton's Shangri-La is the Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan, close to the Chinese border, which Hilton visited a few years before Lost Horizon was published.[4] Being an isolated green valley surrounded by mountains, enclosed on the western end of the Himalayas, it closely matches the physical description in the novel. A Shangri-La resort in the nearby Skardu valley is a popular tourist attraction. The Hunza Valley, however, lacks Tibetan culture and the Buddhist religion, so could not have been Hilton's cultural inspiration for Lost Horizon.
The cultural representation of Shangri-La is most often cited to be northwestern Yunnan Province, China, where National Geographic explorer Joseph Rock lived and traveled during the 1920’s and early 1930’s and wrote several articles in National Geographic Magazine that are richly illustrated with superb photography. This coincides with the time when James Hilton would have been writing Lost Horizon, but there is no direct evidence to support this claim. The evidence points to another set of explorers. In a New York Times interview in 1936, Hilton states that he used “Tibetan material” from the British Museum, particularly the travelogue of two French priests, Evariste Regis Huc and Joseph Gabet, to provide the Tibetan cultural and Buddhist spiritual inspiration for Shangri-La[5][6]. Huc and Gabet travelled roundtrip between Beijing and Lhasa in 1844-46 on a route more than 250 km north of Yunnan. Their famous travelogue, first published in French in 1850[7], went through many editions in many languages[8]. A popular “condensed translation” was published in England in 1928[9], at the time that Hilton would have been getting inspired for, or even writing, Lost Horizon.
Today, various places claim the title, such as parts of southern Kham in northwestern Yunnan province, including the tourist destinations of Lijiang and Zhongdian. Places likeSichuan and Tibet also claim the real Shangri-La was in its territory. In 2001, Tibet Autonomous Region put forward a proposal that the three regions optimise all Shangri-la tourism resources and promote them as one. After failed attempts to establish a China Shangri-la Ecological Tourism Zone in 2002 and 2003, government representatives of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region signed a declaration of cooperation in 2004. Also in 2001, Zhongdian County in northwestern Yunnan officially renamed itself Shangri-La County.
Bhutan, which until 1999 was largely isolated from the outside world and has its unique form of Buddhism, has been hailed as the last Shangri-La.
Let's go see this Shangri-La outside of Paro. Just Push Play>
We are entering the last segment of our journey.
Destination:
Okay Everybody: Get on the Bus and we are going to Mt Everest, to the top, to the Highest You can go on Earth!!!
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Take it to the Top:
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What? The Top of the World not high enough for You?? Okay, going up one level:
Just Push Play> (and do not look down!)
For those of You who are not high enough yet, we are going to the Space Station to have a quick look at these mountains. Maybe that will put You in orbit!
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You might want one more refreshment/bathroom break. Once you start the next vid, you will not want to stop for 10 minutes! (Remember, you can come back to any of these blog pages at any time).
It is approaching midnite when I turn back into a country bumpkin! I have found my Shangri-La in this next video with my Vangelis, touring the Himalayans in a private spacecraft from my comfortable chair in my room. Never in my life will I ever go to these mountains for real, never will I land in that airport, or get on that bus. But I am getting used to viewing High Places! Goodnight and Enjoy!
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Image Credit:http://polilaw.blogspot.com/2012/02/mt-everest.html
from: Jeff Sangkin, author of blog:
I am obsessed with Mt. Everest. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not interested in mountains in general or mountain climbing, but there is something about the highest mountain in the world that is captivating. And I suppose that's why it draws hundreds of people each year who attempt to reach its summit. I recently read Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 Everest disaster that claimed 16 lives--eight in one day. The book is called Into Thin Air, and I was mesmerized. More on the 1996 disaster in a moment.
The peak of Everest is 29,029 feet, roughly the cruising height of a commercial airliner. The oxygen level up there is a third of what it is at sea level. The vast majority of climbers use supplemental oxygen once they get past about 21,000 feet or so, because relying solely on your lungs at that point greatly increases your chances of dying.
See the rest of this exciting post here: http://polilaw.blogspot.com/2012/02/mt-everest.html
You should be completely chilled out now!! Have some mountain climbing dreams! Goodnight.
....this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek
P S For those of You that want to go even higher to another dimension, click on:
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You have arrived at your destination! Sweet Dreams!
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