Travel Newsletter: 19 January 2024

The island near Pattaya, travel in the 90s, islands of Cambodia, slow train travel through Italy, and more travel reads.

Jan 19, 2024

Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.

This week’s article at Nomadic Notes is from an island near Pattaya. I try to visit a new island every year in Thailand, and this is one of the two I visited last year.

Latest posts at Nomadic Notes

• Notes on Koh Larn: A lovely little island cursed by its location

Travel reads

• Nice view. Shame about all the tourists.

“How and why did the phenomenon of global tourism become so problematic? And where are we all heading next?”

• 25 things travelers couldn’t do 30 years ago

• Looking for the unspoilt Thai islands of the 90s? Head to Cambodia

• £12 ski passes and lunch for £8 a head: How Turkey became an affordable skiing destination

• The Silk Road Cargo Race (Film)

““The Silk Road Cargo Race” is a new documentary that recounts Allan Shaw’s audacious attempt to compete in the 2023 Silk Road Mountain Race in Kyrgyzstan aboard a cargo bike. Find the 13-minute film plus Allan’s heartfelt written reflection on the experience and a gallery of analog and digital photos here…”

• TikTok invaded this cruise for content. Maybe someday it’ll come for you.

“Even if you didn’t sign up for the reality-TV treatment, your life may be mined for drama and packaged for consumption by influencers.”

• This Filipino anthropologist made 44 audio walking tours for 44 places in the Philippines

• One artist’s colossal quest to share her love of roadside Americana

• Protecting the world’s most densely populated island from mass tourism