The Travel Wire: best travel reads #11
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Welcome to The Travel Wire (by Nomadic Notes), where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
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Travel reads
• Tourism at the end of the world
“Canada is one of the world’s hottest destinations for travellers who want to see vanishing places before they’re gone. But is the last-chance tourism trend just accelerating their decline?”
• I hated Dubai until I learned about it
• Travel is completely different now
"Two non-nomad friends of ours recently took a trip to Italy — and learned that travel in 2024 is nothing like it used to be. But that doesn't mean they didn't have a great time."
• The glory days of Bali's first beachfront hotels
“The story behind the first hotels to change Bali's landscape – and its fortunes.”
• Turkey’s Kaçkar Mountains: Unspoiled land of alpine adventure
• How the Berlin Wall became a 100-mile bike and pedestrian trail
Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin’s symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history
• Someday, we’ll bike on a path across America. But first, Nebraska. (archive)
“A pedal-powered tour through the geographic midpoint of the proposed 3,700-mile Great American Rail Trail.”
• No planes and no 'spoilers.' How one man trekked from Egypt to Japan without flying
• I’ll pass on Thanksgiving. Give me a camping trip instead.
• Where to go in 2025 by AFAR and Condé Nast Traveler.
• Once popular tourist hotspots that are now totally abandoned
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James Clark - Nomadic Notes.