Hilton's 'Onc Once On The Ground'

The adventure begins on a plane, flying over the clouds and the Himalayas. As the passengers admired the view, Eric was thinking about somewhere else. His thought of navigating in 1933 in a beautiful paradise have referred to in James Hilton’s book where he called it Shangri-La, a utopian world separate from us and where only lucky souls can go. Some of these wanted to leave it, but Conway, a character with whom Eric relates and envies, didn’t. Eric Weiner lived in India in the 1990s as he was working as a National Public Radio reporter and was covering many countries, such as Bhutan, which he calls the closest place to Shangri-La. A local businessman then asked him if it was his first time in Bhutan. It was and hopefully it was during the tse-chu festival. …show more content…
He was welcomed, like every visitor, by his personal guide named Tashi and wearing a gho, a kind of dress for men. Eric immediately pointed out the Bhutanese’s attentive way of being, by the white scarf gift and the both double-handed handshakes. Then, they moved to a coffee shop, where they had to wait because of the closed road. When the dangerous road reopened, they came to Thimphu, the capital and Eric finally arrived at his guest house. The next day, Tashi took Erik to the capital. Weiner was impressed by the stray dogs’ arrogance and he explained their attitude by the belief in reincarnation. No one hurts them because their loved ones are infinites and may be living in the