Shangri La

This write up is the Wiki at its non-partisan best. When the agenda is not involved it can be very good.

Shangri-La
QUOTE
Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. In the book, "Shangri-La" is 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. The word also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient. The story of Shangri-La is based on the concept of Shambhala, a mystical city in Tibetan Buddhist tradition.....

A popularly believed inspiration for 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.
UNQUOTE
James Hilton also wrote Knight Without Armour, which is, perhaps better. It also became a film - see Knight Without Armour starring Marlene Dietrich. This was when being an Englishman was a matter of justified pride, before the Jews started their Culture Wars against us.