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The Travel Wire: best travel reads #21
Mardi Gras the Balkan way, tracing a travel writer’s legacy in Taiwan, Japan’s abandoned industrial island of Hashima, in search of a legendary skiing village
Welcome to The Travel Wire, where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Travel reads
“On a research trip to Taiwan, writer Kat Chen studies late Taiwanese memoirist Sanmao and gains a new understanding of her mother.”
“I was an Alaska flight attendant working another flight that day. But two of my friends died.”
“After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.”

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“As of 2024, the world is back to pre-pandemic levels of international travel—and not everyone is happy about it. What to do?”
"In Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, the legacy of Venetian occupation lives on in a series of spectacular carnivals that these days have a local twist."
“High in the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia has some of the world’s best slopes, untouched by overtourism or outside investor.”
"Ahead of monsoon season farmers in Thailand’s northeastern provinces swap crop tending for propellant mixtures as the annual Rocket Festival launches."
“The Great Wall has been commodified, but even so, I cannot help but marvel at its scale.”
“A train-lover's dream come true? Maybe, but with some caveats...”
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James Clark (Nomadic Notes)