[The Travel Wire #72] The slow extinction of budget travel, riding the Bamboo Curtain, North Korea by night, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The Italian paradise island with no roads, no phon…

[The Travel Wire #71] The hunt for Vietnam’s last floating market, Ko Chang keeps its soul, Nepal’s mountainside teahouses, and more travel reads. Travel reads • Italy’s new nun-mapped pilgri…

[The Travel Wire #70] Notes on Afghanistan, Georgia’s western Pankisi Valley, Mauritius beyond the beach, and more travel reads. Travel reads • ‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabite…

[The Travel Wire #69] Skiing through a winter wonderland in Norway, Finland’s European Capital of Culture, notes on Taiwan, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The TAZARA turns 50 [Al Jazeera] &#…

[The Travel Wire #67] Lagoons of Lençóis Maranhenses, Yangon, and more travel reads

El Salvador, Sable Island National Park Reserve, Trieste, and more travel reads.

North Macedonia, holidays in the 1970s, Roof of England walk, Varanasi, and more travel reads

Bhutan, the coffee hub of Vietnam, how Bali has changed for better and worse, cats of Istanbul, and more travel reads.

Backpacking Greenland, Bangkok during a coup in 1992, the Dolomite Mountains, Somalia, and more travel reads.

When places change, Leiden, Levuka (Fiji’s original capital), exoplanet tourism, and more travel reads

The Chōishi-michi pilgrimage route, the forgotten republic of Transnistria, rediscovering the ancient wonders of eastern Turkey, and more travel reads

Peak District, Zhengzhou, Italy's sleeper from Milan to Sicily, the Michinoku Coastal Trail, and more travel reads

Cathedrals and chapels of Wallis Island, ghost month in Taipei, a train tour of Europe’s cool northern capitals, and more travel reads.

Vietnam’s ‘Happiness Road’, Iceland, one fine day in the high Himalayas, Jeju, and more travel reads

How a century of tourism shaped the Bali we know today, Chile's Route 7, an orangutan sanctuary in Borneo, Orkney, and more travel reads.

Wallis and Futuna, not a travel story, the "cool Camino", Copacabana Beach, and more travel reads.

Syria’s fragile paradise, following James Joyce from Dublin to Trieste by train, visiting the world’s most dangerous places, hungry at the airport, and more travel reads

Five travel rules you should always break, from accidental hiker to climbing 87 mountains, a road trip to Turkey’s fairytale north-east, and more travel reads

Tulum, Swiss cows, Digital Nomad Village in East Sikkim, and more travel reads.

The Little Osaka of Thailand, the Doğu Express, carefree or clueless travel, and more travel reads.

Sarajevo, Albania seizes its moment in the sun, a little walk across Tokyo, Turku, and more travel reads.

Taiwan the railway destination, old passenger ship hotel in Indonesia, hiking ancient Greek villages, Afghanistan, less bad travel, and more travel reads

Notes on Bac Ninh, the lost art of hitchhiking, hill-tribe trek in Vietnam, and more travel reads.

The Alishan Forest Train, travel to the same place, eight trains from the UK to Turkey, and more travel reads.

Guidebooks for China, self-navigating cars in the Faroe Islands, Bruges, the tiny Australian town that became a Nepalese village, and more travel reads

The centuries-old abandoned farmhouses of Puglia, how to travel like Anthony Bourdain, when the icebergs came to town, some of Portugal’s best beaches, and more travel reads

How travel has changed in 20 years, notes on Surabaya, we won't see most of the world, puffins in Ireland, and more travel reads

Zero Zen in Kyoto and overtourism in Japan, Guizhou’s best-kept secret, Ulaanbaatar, and more travel reads

Spain’s Sierra de la Demanda, North Korea’s huge new beach resort, Europe's longest train journey, quokkas of Rottnest Island, and more travel reads

Sri Lanka’s Main Line railway, Saigon Zoo, travel blogging and AI, Greece’s tiny Island of outcasts, and more travel reads.

Yemen’s Al-Qahira Castle, An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris, the best books on long-distance journeys, and more travel reads

Comparing Da Nang and Nha Trang, the secret CIA base in Laos, the reinvention of Catania, Sumba is not Bali, and more travel reads.

Tirana’s pyramid, A hike through stormy Daisetsuzan, Riga, Australia's biggest lake, and more travel reads

Notes on Bandung, walking Britain's entire coast, Lord Howe Island, and more travel reads.

Japan's unstaffed train stations, Luxembourg by bus, Germany’s Camino trek, and more travel reads.

Coffee farms, hobo handbook, surfing Siargao, fake travel photos, Famagusta ghost town, and more travel reads

Hitchhiking, "Beni York", The Ertholm Islands, abandoned hotels, and more travel reads

The historic fort city of Bangkulu, overland from Leeds to Georgia, Rottnest Island, and more travel reads

We travelled 3,000 miles by bus and train to what is currently the eastern limit of independent overland travel

City walks, Casablanca, bucket lists, the food capital of the world, and more travel reads

The new American travel anxiety, an 8,000-mile rail journey from England to the Taj Mahal, walking in solitude and sunshine in Sicily, and more travel reads

The unlikely revival of a great Middle Eastern railroad , the end of the line in South Sumatra, the dark side of wanderlust, the car-free village reached by cable car, and more travel reads

Former and active DMZs, the powder capital of Asia, Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, the world’s biggest heavy metal cruise

Exploring ‘the last paradise on Earth’—in a sea kayak, Koh Mak, Visiting the Beatles ashram in Rishikesh, The London Tunnels

Discover Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), the weird psychology of airports, the hidden side of Ho Chi Minh City, Uzbekistan's tourism boom, and more travel reads

On travel media's misguided obsession with the "local" experience.”, navigating reverse culture shock, Laos, Sardinia, Mekong Delta in harvest season, and more travel reads

On travel media's misguided obsession with the "local" experience.

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