Pico Iyer in Ladakh: ‘The World’s Last Shangri-La’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.19.08 | 3:43 PM ET
Photo by The New York Times’ T Magazine features Pico Iyer’s latest story, a chronicle of a trip to the northern Indian region of Ladakh. He writes: “[W]ord has got out that here is a remote, unusually undeveloped ‘paradise,’ to which, of course, we bring our own, very different images of paradise.” Sometimes, as we know, paradise even involves shopping centers.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 05.20.08 | 12:37 AM ET
If you’re in that area, Jammu & Kashmir is even more beautiful, if you can overlook the occasional odd kidnapping or bombing….
MarilynTerrell 05.20.08 | 1:47 PM ET
Doug Chadwick wrote a feature story and Steve Winter shot some amazing photos of the notoriously elusive snow leopards in Ladakh’s Hemis High Altitude National Park, in this month’s National Geographic, and online here:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/snow-leopards/chadwick-text
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/snow-leopards/winter-photography
Tim Patterson 05.20.08 | 3:18 PM ET
Oh man, I’m excited to read this! Thanks for the heads-up, Michael!
-TP
pam 05.20.08 | 3:21 PM ET
My heart lurches a little bit whenever I read about Ladakh. I’m one of those “I was there when…” people and as much as I try to not be “that way” I can’t help it when it comes to Ladakh.
But I love Pico Iyer so I’m looking forward to the read almost as much as I’m afraid to see what he says about the place that is the most exotic in my memory…