The Travel Wire: best travel reads #7
Hiking the Astungkara Way in Bali, tracking the anaconda in the deep Peruvian Amazon, rebuilding Antakya, Japan's car-free town that autumn hikers love, and more travel reads.
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• Hiking the Astungkara Way, the trail offering a fresh perspective on Bali
• Tracking the anaconda in the deep Peruvian Amazon
• Earthquakes reduced Antakya, Turkey, to rubble. This is how it’s being rebuilt
"Roughly 80% of Antakya was lost. Now the city is beginning construction on a new district with more green space, walkability, and social connection."
• Kamikochi: Japan's car-free town that autumn hikers love
• Passport privilege: the realities of being a Palestinian travel writer
“Lama Obeid got her dream job. But it came at a price...”
• Germany’s new AI travel influencer Is a chatbot still working out some kinks
“Meet Emma, Germany’s new AI travel influencer, who behaves remarkably like a chatbot. The travel industry has some thoughts.”
"There are many visions of Yugoslavia's past. Laurence Mitchell visits the hills of western Serbia to learn how heritage and history fuel the imagination. It's a journey that starts and ends in Uzice and takes in the famous Sargan Eight narrow-gauge railway."
• I rode a bike through Rwanda for 5 days—here’s why it was the best way to see the country
• Northumberland is back on track: a new railway line is opening up one of England’s wildest counties
• Feral cats are upstaging the Great Wall of China
• Listicle season is upon us:
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- Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2025
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James Clark.
Kamikochi is a nice place, now too famous though unlike 15 years ago. Still worth going at least once before finding quieter areas in Aomori prefecture or Hokkaido.