New Year's Eve in Cambodia
Get in the bin, 2021 - seeing out the year in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh - Greetings from Cambodia, where tourism is attempting a comeback. Cambodia is in the top 10 of vaccinated countries, and they have now reopened without quarantine restrictions.
My normal procedure for New Year’s Eve is to go to a beach and reflect on the year that was and the year to come. I was in Cambodia for NYE four years ago, and I went to Otres Beach on that trip. No beach for me this time, so I will find a riverside setting instead.
Wherever you are, hope your 2022 is a good one!
[The morning light in Phnom Penh (via @nomadicnotes.]
Assorted travel reads
• Bangkok Urban Rail Transit Update – 2021 Edition
My update of the various metro lines under construction in Bangkok, including a high-speed railway that will connect the two airports of Bangkok with the airport of Pattaya.
• Watts Towers at 100: Junk turned into art still casts a spell
• Past, present and future: The evolution of China's incredible high-speed rail network
• Railway lines once connected the Middle East (archive link)
• Haunting the coast of Spain: The ghost hotel of Algarrobico
“For almost two decades, the hulk of a never-finished hotel has marred an idyllic coastline in southern Spain. Its fate remains cloudy, but the lesson is clear: It’s easier to damage the environment than to fix it.”
• Meet the Gold Coast ironwoman on a mission to paddle around Australia on a surf ski
• Wellington’s private cable cars
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- James Clark