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(CNN) — On this week’s journey information roundup, we have a look at area lodges by means of the ages, Sicily’s new “Little America” and a brand new glass-bottomed bridge in Vietnam which may simply be the world’s longest.
Connection restored
That occurred this week when an article revealed final weekend helped two former refugees discover the type stranger who gave them $100 on a airplane greater than 20 years in the past. This is the way it occurred.
In one other story again in 2021, we helped resolve the thriller of some 60-year-old pictures that had been uncovered in an Amsterdam flea market.
The finder of the pictures, Jennifer Skupin of Germany, was featured in our story. Susanna Stevens-Johnson — a 71-year-old Yup’ik girl who’s a part of Alaska’s indigenous neighborhood — was then amazed to see long-lost childhood pictures on-line of her outdated classmates, neighbors and mates in a village that had since been deserted. Watch our video and skim the complete story right here.
Area lodges: 1967 to now
Ideas for area lodges have been floating round because the very daybreak of area exploration. Again in 1967, earlier than Neil Armstrong even set foot on the moon, the Hilton lodge chain was planning a lunar lodge with rooms beneath the moon’s floor.
In 2011, Russian agency Orbital Applied sciences introduced its plans for a lodge floating 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) above Earth. There was no bar and even showers, however you might clear up with moist wipes.
California-based Orion Span had hopes in 2018 to launch $10 million journeys to its luxurious Aurora Area Station this 12 months, however the firm shut down operations earlier than that occurred.
Now one other California firm is reaching for the celebs. Orbital Meeting has simply revealed new data and ideas for its area lodge designs, first touted in 2019. Its futuristic imaginative and prescient is for a rotating wheel orbiting Earth — however will our planet’s excessive rollers ever get a spin?
On the transfer once more
Named after Queen Elizabeth II, Crossrail is ready to partially open in 2022 because the Elizabeth line. It is going to join East and West London like by no means earlier than.
Australia’s Qantas airline has revealed new plans for the world’s longest nonstop flights — an 18-hour schlep that it hopes to launch between Sydney and London by the top of 2025.
New Zealand has reopened to vacationers for the primary time in two years, and the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has downgraded Mexico’s journey threat degree for Covid-19.
The state of affairs has been very totally different beneath the zero-Covid coverage in China, nonetheless, the place Beijing banned all restaurant eating and shut down Common Studios as its five-day Labor Day vacation received beneath means.
Italy’s ‘Little America’
The catch was that the brand new house owners can be chargeable for revitalizing the area people by refurbishing the crumbling buildings inside three years.
Now, the city is house to a recent wave of largely North American consumers who took on the problem. This is how they’re getting on.
Do not look down
The Bach Lengthy bridge is open for thrill-seeking guests, providing a glass-bottomed walkway suspended almost 500 toes above the bottom.
Vietnam’s latest attraction for adventurous guests is Bach Lengthy bridge, a glass-bottomed walkway suspended between two mountains in Son La province. It is 632 meters (2,073 toes) lengthy and almost 152 meters (500 toes) above the bottom. It is but to be verified by Guinness World Information, however its house owners declare it is the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge.
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Finest journey video games
Which do you wish to see extra of in your trip: Your family members or your cellphone display? If it is the previous, you would possibly wish to spend money on some journey video games. Our companions at CNN Underscored, a product critiques and suggestions information owned by CNN, have put collectively this roundup of the very best available on the market for teenagers and adults.
