Travel Newsletter: 30 August 2024
Udon Thani to Vientiane by train, explore Kenya with a local hiking club, souvenirs are a sham, Lesotho, abandoned cities, and more travel reads
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• Udon Thani to Vientiane by train: cross the Mekong on this local international rail service
Travel reads
• What’s the best way to explore Kenya? Join a local hiking club.
“The author sought an authentic experience, and found it in Lets Drift, “an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise” of people living in and near Nairobi.”
• Souvenirs are a sham. So why do we keep buying them?
• 10 abandoned cities with eerily beautiful architecture
• In motion: cycling the desert of Wales
• Divers can now explore historic shipwrecks in Lake Michigan more easily
• Teenagers at more risk online than Interrailing in Europe, say experts
“Debate follows TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp’s decision to let 15-year-old make independent trip.”
• Tourist rides motorised luggage on busy Bangkok road
🛏️ Accommodation
• Eight of the world's most extraordinary tiny hotel rooms
💻 Nomad news
• Want to get paid to move to Spain? Extremadura is luring digital nomads with €15,000 grants
🚆Train travel
• On board Indonesia’s most indulgent luxury train journey
• Italy’s new sleeper trains travel from Rome to dreamy mountain and sea destinations
✈️ Air travel
• This is the world’s best-connected airport right now
• Gen Z Is making fun of Millennials for booking flights on laptops