Travel Newsletter: 16 February 2024
The beachiest holiday island in Thailand, modern Chinese travellers, rarest passport, Ukraine’s railways, and more travel reads.
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
This week I caught up with fellow nomad, Wandering Earl. We met in Chiang Mai in 2010, and have been crossing paths ever since. He has a great travel newsletter that goes out every Tuesday, so check it out here.
This week I wrote about my visit to Koh Lipe from last year. I’m still working my way through the islands of the Andaman Sea, but I would go back here if given the chance.
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Notes on Koh Lipe: The beachiest holiday island in Thailand
Travel reads
• Thai haven draws Chinese tech bros, moms and stoners seeking freedom (archive link)
My news feed is biased towards nomads in Chiang Mai from Western countries, so it is interesting to read about the perspective of Chinese living in Chiang Mai.
• For China’s new globetrotters, group tours are out and Northern Lights are in
• Inside the most northerly wildlife park in the world
• Why is it so hard for Africans to travel in Africa?
• Australia's largest handmade mosaic mural tells gold mining history of Charters Towers
• This is the world’s rarest passport
• Quiet revolution? UK sees new breed of 'green' narrowboats
“An extraordinary website of old Japanese hotel and inn luggage tags. The scans are small, we have pulled a collection together of our favourites - click for a larger version.”
• The return of the (robot) travel agent
“A bride, a groom, a honeymoon — and ChatGPT.”
• You can now walk down ‘Rue David Bowie’ in Paris
🛏️ Accommodation
• Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo beloved by famous writers temporarily closes
🚆Train travel
• Ukraine’s railways are still running after two years of war. Here’s how
• The diminishing romance of train travel
“I took a sleeper train across the country. I learned Via Rail is still stuck in the twentieth century.”
✈️ Air travel
• Leaving Las Vegas: business jets after the Super Bowl
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James Clark – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.