guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

For Seoul, I think this is an interesting observation:

  Seoul is not a pretty city, at least not by most Western standards of beauty.
  It is a sprawling, haphazard mix with little apparent cohesion beyond a shared culture.

Personally, I really liked it because it has a different vibe from a more "sterile" city like Tokyo.

Craig Mod is great for Japan https://craigmod.com/ !

For the wiki version, you have https://www.wikivoyage.org

It can be a bit outdated, but then you just update it as you do your research ;)

Thx, great read about Yemen from Maciej Cegłowski https://idlewords.com/2014/07/sana_a.htm

For Switzerland, for someone who likes railways, I found this guide (missing from guide.travel) to be quite nice: https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-switzerland.htm

While planning the trip, I was annoyed by redditors on r/askswitzerland ending almost all replies by asking folks to download the SBB Mobile app. To my surprise, even though I'm not the kind to install apps (let alone Flutter apps), it was god-sent. So well made (their "design system" is open source: https://github.com/SchweizerischeBundesbahnen/design_system_...). Makes travel up and down the country, from Zürich to Lugano, from Genève to St. Gallen, from Basel to Campocologno, stress-free.

For tourists, TooGoodToGo.com (mystery meals) & SwissTopo (trails) are equally neat.