Travel Newsletter: 16 August 2024
Notes on Siantar, the legend of the local, the Alps' newest hiking trail, riding the Trans-Mongolian Railway, and more travel reads.
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Latest posts at Nomadic Notes
• Notes on Siantar: things to do while waiting for the train in North Sumatra
Travel reads
• An Thuong Streets: how Da Nang inadvertently built a vibrant beach neighbourhood
This is an urban development article I wrote for Future Southeast Asia. The preplanned street design has made a walkable neighbourhood by the sea.
“We are meant to eat and drink like them and visit places only they know about. Here's how travel writers and the travel business fell for the cult of localism.”
• The untold story of the Alps' newest hiking trail
Crossing the High Alps through Switzerland and Italy, this 210km hiking route unravels some of the region's most intriguing human history.
• Backpacking the former self-declared Republic of Frestonia
• Drunk visitors, rocketing rents and homogenised cafes: living in Europe’s tourist hotspots
• Australia has 8222 islands, but these 15 are among the best (archive)
• From 1 Chinatown to 2, how Las Vegas’ Asian-Americans changed city’s food, sights, shops (archive)
• The female pilots taking tourists on Cappadocia’s world-famous balloon adventures
• These remote volcanic islands in the South Pacific just became a UNESCO World Heritage site
• The Many Lives of Null Island
“At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude, a location in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa where the Prime Meridian meets the Equator, hundreds of miles from any real dry land.”
💻 Nomad news
• Low cost of living makes Da Nang favorite destination for digital nomads
🚆Train travel
• Riding the Trans-Mongolian Railway, one of the world’s most epic train journeys
• The most magnificent train rides in the U.S.
✈️ Air travel
• The airport is the new third place
• Airlines are running out of flight numbers, and they don’t know what to do about it
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James Clark – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.