Travel Newsletter: 8 December 2023

The Hanoi Train Factory, the lost slides of Tibet, the 'stan within a stan', the fake Paris, and more travel reads.

Dec 08, 2023

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

This week I’ve been working my way through Hanoi articles, including a construction report for Future Southeast Asia.

Latest posts at Nomadic Notes

• Special Train to the Gia Lam Train Factory (Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2023)

Visiting the Gia Lam Train Factory by special train service from Hanoi Station to Gia Lam Station during the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2023.

• Hanoi Airport Bus (one for the search engines, no need to read unless you are getting the bus).

Travel reads

• Finding enlightenment in a junk shop: The lost slides of Tibet

“Lost for nearly 40 years, a trove of photographic slides depicting life in Tibet and a global pilgrimage for peace were found in a Singapore jungle junk shop, sparking an investigation, a restoration, and a journey to Dharamshala in India’s Himachal Pradesh.”

• Life in Karakalpakstan: The 'stan within a stan'

• A French Youtuber went to visit China’s fake Paris for himself

• The story behind Japan’s epic 600-mile Michinoku Coastal Trail

• Why you should explore Lerici, Italy’s under-the-radar alternative to the Cinque Terre

• Amsterdam unveils new rules for living and visiting in 2024

• What is dark tourism?

• She made gods for 70 years: meet the matriarch of Singapore’s last handcrafted Taoist deity producer

• Deep-sea tourism is on the rise. But is it safe?

• The ten best books about travel of 2023

Even though 1/12 of the year remains, the best of lists have begun.