Ideal for: Road trip, trekking, Adventure By Rail: Jammu Tawi Railway Station (700 km from Ladakh).
Places to eat: Wangchuk’s Ladakhi Kitchen, Jalsa Restaurant, Zomsa Restaurant Top Things to do in Ladakh: Watch the Llamas perform colorful Chhams, spot a snow leopard at the Hemis National Park, ride a double-humped Bactrian camel or ride a bike up to the Khardung-La Pass. The Leh-Ladakh Bike Trip is one of the best experiences that attracts all the daredevils out there!īest Places to visit in Ladakh: Zanskar Valley, Pangong Tso Lake, Khardung-La Pass, Spituk Gompa, and Hemis National Park, and more. Its high rising mountain peaks, stunning lakes, salubrious weather, and breathtaking scenery add to the charm of this North Indian destination.
Although they knew they would not win any medals, nor would their sacrifices be rewarded, they still put their hopes on the Olympics and on their country.Located at the northern head of India, Ladakh is arguably one of the best places to visit in India during July-August. The Chinese people themselves were perhaps the real “Olympic athletes”. This ambiguous contrast between the people and the city inspired me to think of the other side of the story.
Beneath the happiness engraved on their faces was patriotism that shrouded the whole Beijing city.Īt the same time, the massive efforts to facelift the city owing to the Olympics resulted in little harmony with the people. Although this was not the case in reality, they still enjoyed themselves without any complaint. People behaved collectively in the same unnameable manner, to express their pride as if these venues were built for them. These venues, together with the almost ecstatic atmosphere in the capital city, worked like a magnet drawing crowds from all over China. Most of them could not afford the tickets, and just came and hang around off the venues to experience the atmosphere and look at the expensive structures built for the games, including the “Bird’s Nest” (Beijing National Stadium) and the “Water Cube” (Beijing National Aquatics Center). Under the hot summer sun in August, outside the venues of the games, I took portraits of citizens who came from all different provinces of China. During the Olympics, we saw the five-starred Chinese national flags being more prominent than the Olympic flags with the five rings in the host city of Beijing. More importantly, China was so eager to demonstrate its soft power following the economic boom after becoming the “world’s factory”, and the Olympics provided the perfect opportunity. The Chinese government perceived the Olympic events and the medals won by Chinese athletes as national glory that could stimulate patriotic sentiments. Many of us may still remember its spectacular and spellbinding opening ceremony, and the torch relay with so many hiccups. The 2008 Beijing Olympics was of an unprecedented scale in modern Olympic history, in terms of the manpower and money put into it.
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