Tralla La

Tralla La, alternately Xanadu is a valley in the Himalayas, isolated from the outside world for cenuries.
== History ==
Kublai Khan conquered the valley some time in the 13th century. When he left, he sealed off the exit so none of the denizens could escape.
In the 15th century, Samuel Purchas found the valley, and would later write a famous poem about it.
In 1854, the Duck family arrived, and introduced bottlecaps to the citizens, which started treating it like money. Some time later the Ducks returned, and caused the whirlpool to clog. But they used the remains of the bottlecaps to make tools to fix the problem.
==Behind the Scenes==
The name Tralla La is based on the fictional Shangri La, from James Hilton's Lost Horizon. Similarly to Tralla La, the people of Shangri La are supposed to be without disease and grief.
In Don Rosa's sequel to the original story, he chose to couple the fictional inspiration of Shangri La with the more real Xanadu, which is often thought to be a lost city similar to Atlantis, but is actually the modern Shangdu. This means both of the two influences of the fictional valley are mostly western portrayals of chinese stories.
Category:Locations
Category:Valleys