“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time…”

- Bill Bryson

Curated straight from Bali Board Cafe, a social enterprise working to make free recreation accessible for local youth. This playlist is all sunshine, salt air, and slow mornings, press play and ride the good vibes all day long.

📍Going to Bali? Don’t just go. Go better. Our e-guide curates the Bali you actually want to experience.

 🔄 Second life: Across the globe, disused buildings are getting turned into cool, climate-resilient community hubs that protect both people and the planet.

🔔 Class is in session: School stays are breathing new life into Japan’s rural villages, where tourists bunk in old classrooms and reconnect with nature.

🍍What’s your flavour?: Meet the locals shaking up the food and culture scene in Cartagena, Colombia all with the local community in mind.

💼 For job seekers: The Conscious Travel Foundation is hiring a fully remote, part-time Admin Coordinator to support their purpose-led travel community.

Cardamom Tented Camp

📍 Botum Sakor National Park, Cambodia
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Cardamom Tented Camp is proof you can go full-Tarzan and leave the jungle better than you found it. Founded by conservationists in partnership with the Wildlife Alliance and Cambodian government, this jungle camp is 100% adventure.

Imagine solar-powered safari tents pitched deep in Cambodia’s last great rainforest corridor. Every booking helps fund anti-poaching patrols, protect habitats, keep chainsaws quiet, and support rangers who know every elephant track by heart.

Days here look like kayak runs to hidden waterfalls, glimpses of wild elephants, dawn hikes with gibbon soundtracks, and fireside chats with rangers who share stories you’ll never forget.

This is conservation you can sleep in.

In this week’s What’s Hot & What’s Not by real travellers like yourself, say Hi to Tim, a copywriter who’s a little less nomadic these days.

Tim crafts sharp direct response copy and curates several newsletters in the digital nomad space, including his own — The Digital Nomad. It’s a short, punchy weekly read packed with news, human stories, and all the stuff nomads need to know.

🔥 What’s Hot

hanging out in local villages and areas - don't just pitstop/pass through, Estonia, co-living, buying local, buying preloved clothing, traveling with reusable grocery bags, active listening (especially to local people), newsletters, lots of new visas around for digital nomads, longer stays in fewer places/slow travel, real-life travel content, journaling your travel.

❄️ What’s Not

the more popular thai islands, canggu (well, much of bali!), hogging beauty spots to take a million photos, not reading up on local customs, co-working spaces that don't facilitate community, bartering for 50 cents off a $3 item, nomad meetups without purpose (can't deal with the same questions every time otherwise!), tinder, AI writing - it all sounds the same unless you know how to edit, unrealistic IG influencers.

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