[The Travel Wire #91] Laos’ Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, walking Tokyo’s Yamanote Line, the smallest inhabited island in the Bay of Naples, and more travel reads.
Travel reads
• No resorts, no direct flights: Why this island might be one of Europe’s best-kept secrets [CNN Travel]
“While the big-hitter islands like Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria are saturated with visitors, El Hierro is relatively untouched by tourism. In 2024, over six million international tourists descended upon Tenerife. In the same period, only 4,100 came to El Hierro.”
• WOW: My visit to Laos’ creepy, lawless “Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone” [One Mile At A Time]
• How Porto’s gritty, industrial neighbour became a cool coastal hotspot [The Guardian]
“Matosinhos was built on fish, but today its retro seafood restaurants and canneries sit alongside great art spaces, museums and landmark architecture.”
• I walked all 27 miles of Tokyo’s Yamanote Line in 1 day—and I found a slower side of the city most travelers miss [Travel + Leisure]
“The 27 mile walk passes 30 stations and some of Tokyo’s most interesting sites and sights.”
• Why you’re bored everywhere – even in paradise [Fugitive Margins]
“We are the most overstimulated humans who have ever lived, which is why you can travel to the most beautiful cities on earth and feel nothing. A dispatch from Prague.”
• Postcard from Procida, the smallest inhabited island in the Bay of Naples [The New Roman Times]
• The devil’s dilemma: Investigating the legend of a bridge in Tuscany [Intrepid Times]
“On a visit to one of Tuscany’s most iconic medieval bridges, in Borgo a Mozzano, a traveller finds herself on a quest through sleepy Italian hamlets, where everyone knows the legend, but no one tells it quite the same way.”
• Swimming in the Zero Zone [Nomadic Mind]
“Kharkiv, Ukraine: One million people who refused to leave.”
• The idyllic island you can drive around in a weekend [BBC Travel]
“More than a third of visitors to French Polynesia arrive by cruise, but Mo’orea rewards travellers who slow down and explore its coastal ring road at their own pace.”
• Japan’s contradictions & what they teach us about our inner conflicts [Wander, Wonder, Write]
“On mindfulness, excess, and tolerating ambiguity.”
• Stuck between a couple on a long haul, I expected one to swap seats. They didn’t (archive) [Traveller]
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