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The Travel Wire: best travel reads #13
The long road back to Mandalay, "Freak Street", the Bourdain zombie page, the world’s largest mammal migration, and more travel reads.
Welcome to The Travel Wire (by Nomadic Notes), where I curate the best travel reads of the week.
Travel reads
“Half a century after his first visit, Paul Theroux looks back on a lifetime of adventures in Burma, now Myanmar, which featured in two of his classic travelogues — and inspired his latest novel.”
“Kathmandu's legendary "Freak Street", an erstwhile hippy haven with a heady, sometimes horrific, history is making something of a comeback as a laid-back strip.”
“Investigating the evolution of a zombie social-media account.”
I have often wondered about this Facebook page. I have previously featured an image of Anthony Bourdain on a train, and it probably came from this account. If you like one Bourdain travel quote on Facebook, the algorithm will continue to serve you Bourdain travel quotes.
“The capital of Ireland, like most old cities, is a palimpsest of history. Walking its streets and the city's outskirts provides one a remarkable opportunity to unpack its many layers of the past.”
“During my last adventure, I spent around ten days on Koh Rong Sanloem, basing myself in the fishing village of M’Pai Bai. It was my second time on the island; I’d last been in 2017, when I’d stayed on the bougier (and entirely touristy) Saracens Bay.”
“Each year, millions of straw-colored fruit bats descend on Kasanka National Park for a few months, and scientists are working to understand their mysterious journey.”
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James Clark (Nomadic Notes)