Escape the City Clamor: 10 Surprising Quiet Havens
BBC Travel highlights 10 unconventional refuges from urban noise—from ramen booth solitude and Bali’s Nyepi day to anechoic chambers, quiet parks, Dublin bookshops, Berlin’s Room of Silence, Bangkok dawn alms, sign-language cafés, Taipei jungle trails, and an Oxford stationery shop—showing near-silence is possible in cities and highlighting the growing 'quietcation' trend.