Although a Cafe-type question, I’m looking for the facts. This has always bugged me. Three Dog Night once sang of “Shambala”. It sounds like a eutopia, like Shangrala. Is this what they meant? For background info, this song has a hippie-like theme to it saying “I can tell my brother (or sister) of the flowers in his/her eyes on the road to Shambala…”
Perhaps this a real thing in some Eastern cultures, I wag? Maybe like Nirvana?
Since my high school literary journal was called Shambella (sic), I actually researched this. Shambhala and Shangri-La are related. Shambhala is a mythical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas. Shangri-La, a similar kingdom from the story Lost Horizon, is inspired by it.
From what I’ve gathered during one of my random “well, what do I feel like looking up” tangents a while ago, Shambhala is pretty much equivilent to Shangri-La. Of course, this is a tiny simplification, Shambhala preceeded and inspired Shangri-La (in Lost Horizons), but unless you’re writing an academic paper or getting into an argument about the philisophic inspirations of James Hilton’s novels they’re more or less interchangable.
And then, of course, there’s Tralla-La, inspired by Shangri-la:
OK, but what about Falla-Lalla-La? 
That’s the official national designator for the North Pole…