The Travel Wire: best travel reads #24

50 years of travel tips, Vietnam’s Ha Giang loop, the 'White Lotus effect', and more travel reads.

February 21, 2025

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Travel reads

• 50 years of travel tips [Kevin Kelly]

“I took everything I have learned from a half century of serious travel and put all my travel tips into one document for easy reading and sharing.” (Via Recomendo)

I like to haunt cemeteries when I travel, from the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of London to the colonial cemeteries in Asia where people died from shipwrecks and old-timey diseases.

"Devils, northerners and dodgy political metaphors on Ireland's highest mountain."

• The timeless appeal of Puerto Vallarta (archive) [The New York Times]

"In the 1960s, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor hid away in what was a bucolic town on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Decades later, a writer discovered why."

When I went to Puerto Vallarta, Wandering Earl told me to go to Tacon de Marlin. I’m glad to read they are still going.

"On Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, David Whitley discovers that a decade can make a substantial difference."

"Feline good — Traditionally adopted to keep away rats from expensive produce, the feline guardians have become part of the central neighbourhood’s fabric. Erica’s online series captures the local celebrities."

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James Clark (Nomadic Notes)