香格里拉，自古就是藏民族最理想的“如意宝地”藏族民歌唱道：“太阳最早照耀的地方，是东方的结塘，人间最殊胜的净土是奶子河畔的香格里拉”。香格里拉县位于云南省西北部的滇、川、藏“大三角”区域，是国家“三江并流”风景名胜区的一颗明珠，地处迪庆香格里拉腹心地带。香格里拉是一片人间少有的完美保留自然生态和民族传统文化的净土，素有“高山大花园”、“动植物王国”、“有色金属王国”的美称。万里长江第一湾呈“V”字型包裹着这块全省县级国土面积最大的“如意宝地”，滇藏公路纵贯全境。全县人口13万人。26个民族，其中9个是世居民族。是一个以藏族为主体、地域辽阔、资源丰富的县份。香格里拉共有著名旅游景点24个，是一个自然景观、人文景观的富集区域，是国家八大黄金旅游热线之一。 香格里拉的常规旅游景点有：碧塔海，那帕海，松赞林寺，属都湖；到了夏天，则你一定要去梅里雪山，否则，算您白来云南一次了。
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.