Hello old friend - back in Saigon!
Returning to a reopened Vietnam, and the best travel reads of the week.
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Greetings from Saigon! It’s good to be back, and it’s also weird to be back. If you are new to the newsletter, I was in Vietnam for most of 2020 and 2021. I left in August last year, not knowing when I would return. Now the country has reopened, though they are only issuing 1-month visas. This has at least taken the decision out of my hands about how long to stay.
I have committed 2022 to expanding coverage on Future Southeast Asia, so I will travel around the region until further notice. For now though, I am catching up with friends and revisiting all my favourite places to eat.
[James, Ho Chi Minh City (@nomadicnotes).]
Assorted travel reads
• Does traveling to every country count if you don’t post on the Internet?
• Jura: Visiting the Scottish island that spawned George Orwell's 1984
• Visiting a matriarchal village in the remote mountains of Southwest China
• Rodrigues: The Indian Ocean island time forgot
• Photographing the diverse wildlife of Kenya’s Masai Mara
• 30 people reveal what underrated travel destinations they couldn’t recommend more
• This Guatemalan city rolls out colorful sawdust carpets for holy week
• Before Amelia Earhart, there was the forgotten first lady of flight
• My sparsely-populated homeland
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The Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter is a weekly newsletter of the best travel reads and interesting travel news from around the web, and random ramblings by the editor.
- James Clark
And that "influencer" is so much of what is wrong with modern travel.
Agree wholeheartedly with @Michael Jensen on both accounts!