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The Travel Wire: best travel reads #53

The Travel Wire: best travel reads #53

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

James Clark
September 11, 2025

The Travel Wire is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads from around the web.

Travel reads

• Has Tulum lost its luster? [Mexico Soul]

"Facing sargassum, beach fees and inflated prices—can Tulum reverse the trend?"

• When the cows come home in the Alps, the Swiss eat raclette [Smithsonian Magazine]

"Every September, dairy farmers herd cattle from high-alpine pastures back to the villages where they reside for the winter and celebrate the occasion by roasting cheese over a fire."

• Shanghai, according to Xiaohongshu [Peking Quack]

"For its 376 million users, this Chinese lifestyle app is a gospel. Want a good restaurant? A fun weekend plan? A trending photo spot? Just search on the app, and you’ll find posts titled things like “Highly recommend for good photos,” “High photo success rate,” or “Best photo spots here.”"

• Grief on the Nile: What it is like to get the worst news on a dream trip [Jessica Lockhart at Lonely Planet]

• I was the first digital nomad in Yakten – here's my guide to this quaint Sikkim village [Travel + Leisure]

"Experience slow living, community stays, and remote work from the mountains of Yakten, India’s first Digital Nomad Village in East Sikkim."

• Decadent Catania, wild Crete: How mass tourism creates hidden worlds [Nomadic Mind]

• The new marathon? Crossing an entire country under your own power [Thrillist]

"Whether on foot or two wheels, the latest adventure trend is to travel border to border."

• An ‘anti-tour’ of Suva shows visitors another side to Fiji [The Guardian]

• This town was swallowed by a mountain. Now it’s become a door to adventure in the Andes [CNN Travel]

• "Dalifornication" grips China (archive) [The Economist]

"On tour with the low-income leisure class."