Travel Newsletter: 5 January 2024
Airports of Southeast Asia, Asia's overland hippie trail, Inside Pyongyang, and more travel reads
Happy New Year from Bangkok! I’ve been busy here meeting family and friends, in addition to writing transport articles for Future Southeast Asia. Blogging will resume on Nomadic Notes next week.
Travel reads
• Southeast Asia Airport Report (2024 Edition)
Every year I publish a summary of new airports that are planned or under construction in Southeast Asia. If you are interested about transport news in SE Asia then subscribe to my other site at Future Southeast Asia.
• Asia's overland hippie trail falls victim to geopolitics
“Wars and fast travel have shut a once-popular route for Western travelers.”
• Inside Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital of control
• Selfies and social media: how tourists indulge their influencer fantasies
• Don’t skip the mall food courts in Asia
“Food courts get a bad rap, but in parts of Asia, they are a slice of local life and cuisine.”
• ‘A wild swimmer’s paradise’: the beach on top of a Yorkshire moor
• The hottest winter trend in Europe: plunging in freezing water
💻 Nomad news
• The cheapest places to live in the world in 2024
• Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
🚆Train travel
• The most exciting new trains coming in 2024
• In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way
• Spanish national railways to provide high-speed services on Paris-Marseille route
✈️ Air travel
• 90-second drills helped JAL crew lead passengers out of flaming jet
• Haneda accident outcome the sum of decades of integrated air safety lessons
• Inside the unclaimed baggage center where lost luggage finds new life
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[Bangkok Old City @nomadicnotes.]
James Clark – Bangkok, Thailand.