Journey information: Glass bridges, area lodges and a fantastic reunion after 23 years
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN
On this week’s journey information roundup, we take a look at area lodges by way 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
CNN Journey usually covers stunning and touching moments between passengers on life’s journey. However from time to time, CNN turns into a personality within the story, too.
That occurred this week when an article printed final weekend helped two former refugees discover the type stranger who gave them $100 on a airplane greater than 20 years in the past. Right here’s the way it occurred.
In one other story again in 2021, we helped remedy the thriller of some 60-year-old photographs that had been uncovered in an Amsterdam flea market.
The finder of the photographs, Jennifer Skupin of Germany, was featured in our story. Susanna Stevens-Johnson — a 71-year-old Yup’ik lady who’s a part of Alaska’s indigenous neighborhood — was then amazed to see long-lost childhood photos on-line of her outdated classmates, neighbors and buddies in a village that had since been deserted. Watch our video and browse the total story right here.
Area lodges: 1967 to now
Ideas for area lodges have been floating round for the reason that very daybreak of area exploration. Again in 1967, earlier than Neil Armstrong even set foot on the moon, the Hilton resort chain was planning a lunar resort with rooms beneath the moon’s floor.
In 2011, Russian agency Orbital Applied sciences introduced its plans for a resort floating 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) above Earth. There was no bar and even showers, however you possibly can 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 yr, however the firm shut down operations earlier than that occurred.
Now one other California firm is reaching for the celebrities. Orbital Meeting has simply revealed new info and ideas for its area resort 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
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 tip of 2025.
And within the UK, a date has been set for the launch of London’s new “Tremendous Tube.” (And in the event you’re a fan of trains, take a look at this stunning rail expertise recent out of Taiwan).
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 danger stage for Covid-19.
The scenario has been very totally different below 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 obtained below means.
Italy’s ‘Little America’
The Italian city of Sambuca in Sicily pioneered a pattern when, in 2019, it started promoting properties for simply over a greenback.
The catch was that the brand new house owners could be answerable for revitalizing the local people by refurbishing the crumbling buildings inside three years.
Now, the city is dwelling to a recent wave of largely North American consumers who took on the problem. Right here’s how they’re getting on.
Don’t look down
Vietnam’s latest attraction for adventurous guests is Bach Lengthy bridge, a glass-bottomed walkway suspended between two mountains in Son La province. It’s 632 meters (2,073 ft) lengthy and practically 152 meters (500 ft) above the bottom. It’s but to be verified by Guinness World Information, however its house owners declare it’s the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge.
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Finest journey video games
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