Travel Newsletter: 22 March 2024

That time they almost built an airport on Koh Phangan, Sydney's amazing rock pools, Angkor Wat Equinox, and more travel reads.

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

Travel reads

• Koh Phangan Airport: The abandoned airport project in the Gulf of Thailand

Ko Phangan is famous for the Full Moon Party, and it almost got an airport.

• The 30 coolest streets in the world

I’ve just returned from my (almost) annual trip to Melbourne, where I am annually reminded what a cook city it is.

This list has “High Street, Melbourne” as the number one coolest street in the world, though no one in Melbourne would say High Street, Melbourne because there are dozens of High Streets. The street is named in the British way where the High Street is the main shopping street of a suburb. In this case, you need to go to the suburb of Northcote.

• He biked from Spain to Singapore. The kindness of strangers kept him going. (Archive)

• What cycling across Morocco taught me about the world we live in

• My lifetime love affair with Sydney's amazing rock pools

• Skiing Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano

• Nepal passed new rules for climbing Everest. Not everyone Is happy.

• India is a hiker’s dream destination. Here are a dozen of its most epic trails

• We found a swimming pool in every city on our Interrail trip around Europe

• MapLab: A mapmaker hunts for the perfect eclipse

• 10,000 witness Spring Equinox sunrise at Angkor Wat

Here is a photo of the Angkor Wat Equinox by @roma_lim_.

💻 Nomad news

• After success of BTS and Parasite, South Korea woos digital nomads

🚆Train travel

• Japan's bullet train network just became bigger with new stops

✈️ Air travel

• Why do airlines charge so much for checked bags? This obscure rule helps explain why

• Why is row 13 missing on so many airplanes?

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James Clark – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.