Travel Newsletter: 2 February 2024
Notes on Hat Yai, Rwanda’s innovative capital, Bangkok's canals, big statues of Vietnam, things people only do in hotel rooms, and more travel reads.
Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
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• Notes on Hat Yai: Thailand’s laid-back southern city
Hat Yai is a city in Songkhla province in southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border. It’s a major travel hub, with a railway junction and international airport. There’s a good chance you’ll pass through here if you’re travelling to the Satun Islands or to or from Malaysia.
Travel reads
• Rwanda’s innovative capital is becoming the creative center of Africa
• Seeing Bangkok’s canals on a boat powered by solar energy shows its potential for water transport
• A brief history of superyachts
• Maitreya Buddha statue, among world’s largest, inaugurated on Vietnam’s Ba Den Mountain
This is in Tay Ninh, which is home to the Cao Dai temple. Somehow I have still not been here. This being in Vietnam it is lit up at night. Also being in Vietnam, there is a cable car.
• Giant dragon statue at Hue's famous water park to be dismantled
This statue became more famous after the park was abandoned. Extra sad/ironic to be dismantling it in the year of the dragon.
• Discover the beasts of Switzerland’s Lötschental Valley
• 1,000-kilometer nature trek helping Tohoku once again hit its stride
🛏️ Accommodation
• The best (and weirdest) things people only do in hotel rooms
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• The 6 most adventurous train trips in North America
• Bruges, Prague, Bratislava: Epic new train route could connect major European cities in 2024
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[Vung Tau Front Beach @nomadicnotes.]
James Clark – Vung Tau, Vietnam.
Costa del Sol for the win if you're in the digital nomad game. Why not do a stint?
Those tschäggättä like fantastic.