This Month’s Film: Travellers and Magicians
Cuisine: Bhutanese

Having watched ‘Travellers and Magicians’, I was curious to see ‘Lost Horizon’, since I’d learned from several sources that the Kingdom of Bhutan was the model for Shangri-La. So I ordered the DVD from NetFlix and watched it last night. The film stars Ronald Coleman as Robert Conway, the British explorer and diplomat, dubbed the ‘Man of the East’.

The story begins with a revolution in the Chinese city of Baskul, where Conway has been sent to rescue 90 westerners. His rescue plane is hijacked by an Asian pilot, and the passengers are taken to the lofty Himilayan city of Shangri-La, a mystical place without crime, war, illness or old age. Conway and his party soon come to realize that their arrival in Shangri-La was no accident or coincidence. It’s a wonderful old story, well intentioned, if a little naïve. Classic Frank Capra.

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