The Travel Wire

[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 phone signal — and almost no tourists [CNN Travel] “Palmarola has no town and no roads. There is no electricity, no mobile phone […]

[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 pilgrim trail (archive) [BBC Travel] “As Italy grapples with overtourism, a series of ancient trails resurrected by nuns winds through the forgotten landscapes where Benedictine monasticism shaped […]

[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 uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise [The Guardian] “Once host to a poisonous gas research facility, Okunoshima is now an Instagram-friendly tourist destination.” • Notes on […]

[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] “Riding the troubled railway line between Tanzania and Zambia as China moves to rebuild it.” • In Norway, skiing through a winter wonderland (archive) [NY […]

[The Travel Wire #68] On synchronicity, Bissau, Mount Fuji, and more travel reads. Travel reads • The island without time (archive) [The Atlantic] “I traveled above the Arctic Circle to find out whether a town really can live free from the clock.” [Norwegian fishing village of Sommarøy, located above the Arctic Circle.] • On synchronicity [The Unplugged Traveler] […]