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Travelfish #448: Vietnam On Two Wheels

A great site turns ten, plus a week of procrastination

Stuart McDonald
Aug 1, 2022
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Hi all,

This week I’m leading with a nice piece on Vietnam Coracle celebrating ten years of being online (and on two wheels). I had a coupla coffees with the site’s founder Tom a few years back in HCMC, and it has been great seeing the site go from strength to strength. Well done! If you’re Vietnam-bound and prefer to be on two wheels, his site belongs in your bookmarks. In honour of ten years, the pics this week are from Vietnam—on two wheels!

A minor content note, I’ve removed the vaccination and state of Asia charts for now as the needle isn’t moving much on that front. If/when the situation changes, I’ll reinstate them.

Cheers

Stuart

Altitude

Getting a bit of air in Dien Bien. Photo: Stuart McDonald.

⭐️ Story of the week 

  • 10 Year Anniversary of Vietnam Coracle from Vietnam Coracle


🇲🇲 Burma

  • Four Executions from Dari Mulut Ke Mulut

  • Dengue Worsens Under the Junta’s Watch from Frontier Myanmar ($)

  • Myanmar Junta Extends State of Emergency from The Irrawaddy

🇰🇭 Cambodia

  • Police to Inspect All Foreigners’ Housing to Combat Human Trafficking from VOD

  • Rise in Thai Air Routes to Siem Reap Fuels Travel Hopes from The Phnom Penh Post

  • Sambor Prei Kuk Temples Analysed from The Phnom Penh Post

Ad: Phnom Penh’s Penh House, from US$62 per night. Click here for the details.

🌴 Environment

  • How Climate Change is Washing Away Precious Evidence of Our Distant Past from The Conversation

🇮🇩 Indonesia

  • Fire Razes 94 Buildings on Gili Trawangan from Bali Discovery

  • Bali Airport Has Become a Nightmare With Up to Five Hours Immigration Lineups! from Loyalty Lobby

  • Bali Immigration Denies Over Five-hour Lineup at Ngurah Rai Airport from Antara

  • Cultivating the World’s Largest, Stinkiest Flower is No Small Task from National Geographic

  • Protests to Increase in Komodo Island Entrance Ticket Prices, Tourism Industry Players in NTT Will Strike During August from VOI

  • Why Delivery Drivers Tried to Sew Their Lips Shut in Indonesia from Rest Of World

🇱🇦 Laos

  • Laos-China Railway Proposes Standing Tickets from The Laotian Times

  • Wildlife Sold Openly at Markets in Vientiane Capital from The Laotian Times

  • ‘Hungry River’ Phenomenon to Blame for Severe Erosion of Mekong River Banks in Laos from RFA

🇲🇾 Malaysia

  • “We Thought It Was a Shooting Star”: Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Fragments Seen in Malaysia from The Guardian (Video)

  • Where Has Jho Low Stashed His Cash? from The Sarawak Report

  • The New Island City of Malaysia from Nomadic Notes

  • He Got Away With Robbing a Bank. Here’s How to Hold Him Accountable. from The Diplomat

🇸🇬 Singapore

  • Honor the Dead at Haw Par Villa’s First-ever Spirits Festival from Coconuts Singapore

  • Changi Prison Turns Into a Slaughterhouse from We, The Citizens

  • The Secrets to Cooling Down, According to Singaporeans With No Air Conditioners from Rice Media

🇹🇭 Thailand

  • Thailand Sees Hopes of Achieving 7-10 Million Tourists Arrivals in 2022 After It Breaks 3 Million in July from Thai Enquirer

  • Into the Sea from Bangkok Post

  • Thailand Tunes In and Turns On from Asia Sentinal

  • Thailand Tiger Rescues Hold No Guarantee of Safety from SEA Globe ($)

Ad: Bangkok’s Sala Arun from US$116 per night. Click here for the details.

🇻🇳 Vietnam

  • Vietnam’s ‘Coral Grave’ at Nha Trang Bay a Wake-up Call on Climate Change Destruction from SCMP ($)

  • Exploring Chợ Quán Asylum, Saigon’s Oldest Prisoner-of-war Camp from Saigoneer

  • Trouble for Vietnam's New Passport from Vietnam Weekly

Random other stuff

  • Tourist Traps in South-east Asia: Fake Orphans and Floating-market Scams from The Straits Times ($)

  • Fleets of Airbnbs in Region Run by Management Companies, Out-of-town Owners from The Traverse City Record Eagle

  • Barcelona Targets Cruise Ships in Its Latest Fight With Tourists from Bloomberg ($)

  • Visiting Venice? Make a Reservation and Be Ready to Pay. from The New York Times

  • The West Hasn’t Got a Clue About Bamboo from The Financial Times ($)

  • The Mysterious Inner Life of the Octopus from BBC

Couchfish (Free-to-read)

  • Couchfish: The Deportation Daily

Couchfish (Paid subscribers only)

  • Couchfish Day 319: Trang Time

  • Couchfish Day 320: Getting Crabby in Krabi

Layering

Somewhere in Son La. Photo: Stuart McDonald.

See you next week!

So that’s the wrap. I hope you are all in good health, and thanks for reading.

See you next week,

Stuart

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