Walking Singapore
KL to Singapore, how AI makes travel planning worse, Croatia’s Dugi Otok island, best airports, and more travel reads
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
This week I got the train from Kuala Lumpur to Johor Bahru, and then Johor Bahru to Woodlands in Singapore. There used to be a train from Woodlands to central Singapore, but that line was closed down and ripped up. There is now a walking path in this corridor, so I walked the line from north to south (over 21 km!). It took over 5 hours of walking, and I will write a guide for the best sections if you don’t want to walk the entire length.
I spent another day wandering around Singapore, and without tracking my step count I probably walked over 20 km as well (I walked over 5 hours). Singapore is a very walkable city, though there will be sweat!
Travel reads
• Not quite the Bali it used to be? This is what overtourism is doing to the island
• Dalmatian spot: kicking back on Croatia’s Dugi Otok island
• If the Flintstones vacationed in France: A guide to the cave villages
• How museums in Central and Eastern Europe tell the complicated story of life behind the Iron Curtain
• The Carretera Granma: One of the most spectacular drives in Cuba
AI travel
“On how AI makes travel planning worse while promising better.”
• Can an AI travel planner put together a holiday itinerary for Bangkok?
🛏️ Accommodation
🚆Train travel
• DiscoverEU: How to get one of the EU’s 35,500 free rail passes for young people this summer
✈️ Air travel
• Singapore loses ‘World’s Best Airport’ crown to Qatar
• With international traffic roaring back, there’s a new No. 2 busiest airport
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[The marvellous shophouses of Singapore.]
James Clark – Singapore.
Used to live in KL and was always annoyed at how tricky it was to walk anywhere - will definitely be looking up the rail corridor when next in the area :-)
Amost ten years ago I walked from Mt Faber through all the parks to Singapore University finding geocaches, a great way to explore a city. Almost ten km and a whole afternoon.