The Lost Kingdom
Writers, scholars and explorers have long searched for Shangri-La, a mythical utopia portrayed in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon. While the novel is set somewhere in Tibet, they should perhaps look farther south to Bhutan, a serene Buddhist kingdom that might be its modern-day equivalent, where success is measured by happiness. It receives less than a tenth of the number of visitors to Nepal, and eschews the neon-lit developments of Tibet.
The flight to Bhutan passes ‘range upon range of
