摘要：香格里拉市是迪慶藏族自治州下轄市之一，市境位于云南省西北部，是滇、川及西藏三省區(qū)交匯處，也是“三江并流”風(fēng)景區(qū)腹地。截止到2014年，香格里拉市總面積11613平方公里，轄4個鎮(zhèn)、7個鄉(xiāng)，共有6個社區(qū)、58個行政村。以下是小編整理的旅游英語文章：香格里拉英文介紹， 希望能對大家的英語學(xué)習(xí)有幫助。

　　In the year 1893, James Hilton described an eternally peaceful and quiet place among mountains in the East--- "Shangri-La" in one of his novels for the first time. In the novel "Lost Horizon", an English diplomat Conway and his brother Gorge scattered the English citizens and helped them leave the dangerous region. On their way home, their plane was hijacked　and fell down into the mountain in the Tibetan region. Some lucky survivors were taken to Shangri-la where Conway found lots of fantastic things in such a state founded nearly 200 years ago, in which the local people lived up to more than one hundred years old and lived peacefully and harmoniously with the other people, animals and everything here. The place was called "Shangri-La" by the local folks.

香格里拉英文介紹

　　James Hilton located "Shangri-La" in a mysterious valley which was surrounded by snowcapped mountains; near where there were snow-clad peaks, blue lakes, broad grassy marshlands, and lamaseries, Buddhist nunneries, mosques, Catholic Church, the human beings and the nature were in perfect harmony, several religions and varies of nationalities exited at the same time; the temples looked splendid in green and golden; though people contacted the outer world by caravan for a long time, many foreign experts and scholars had come here to investigate and remained much relics...

　　Obviously, that is not only a beautiful scenery, but also a kind of artistic conception.

　　With the novel and the film coming out, Shangri-La became very famous in western countries. Later, a Chinese named Guo Huonian used the name of this place and set up "Shangri-La" Hotel Group which has become one of the most successful hotel group in the world.

　　At the same time, people didn't give up looking for the legendary Shangri-La. Up to the end of this century, they finally have found--

　　After inspecting and proving on many aspects, people found that Diqing Prefecture, the only Tibetan region in Yunnan, China, has striking similarity with what's described in the tale regarding either on natural scenery or people's way of living. Therefore, the name of "Diqing?ǎShangri-La" spreads worldwide.