In this week’s travel news roundup, we look at hotels spatial over the ages, Sicily’s new “Little America” and a new glass-bottom bridge in Vietnam which may be the longest in the world.
Connection restored
THE CNN often covers beautiful and touching moments among passengers on life’s journey. But every now and then, the CNN also becomes a character in the story.
That happened this week, when an article published last weekend helped two formerrefugees to meet the kind stranger who gave them $100 on a plane over 20 years ago.
In another story in 2021, we helped solve the mystery of some 60-year-old photos that were discovered at an Amsterdam flea market in the US. Netherlands .
The discoverer of the photos, Jennifer Skupin of Germany , was featured in our history. Susanna Stevens-Johnson – a 71-year-old Yup’ik woman from the Alaskan Indian community – was surprised to see lost childhood footage online of her former classmates, neighbors and friends in a village that has since been abandoned.
Space hotels: 1967 to now
concepts for hotels spacecraft have been floating around since the beginning of space exploration. In 1967, even before Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon the Hilton hotel chain was planning a lunar hotel with rooms under the surface of the natural satellite.
In 2011, Russian company Orbital Technologies announced its plans for a hotel floating some 400 kilometers above the Earth. There was no bar or showers, but you could clean yourself with baby wipes.
California-based Orion Span had hopes in 2018 of launching $10 million trips to its luxurious Aurora Space Station this year, but the company ended operations before that happened.
Now, another California company is reaching for the stars. Orbital Assembly has just revealed new information and concepts for its space hotel projects, first unveiled in 2019. Their futuristic vision is for a spinning wheel orbiting the Earth – but will our planet’s high rollers take a spin? check out on here .
on the move again
Australian airline Qantas has revealed new plans for the longest nonstop flight in the world – an 18-hour route it hopes to launch between Sydney and London by the end of 2025.
and not United Kingdom a date has been set for the launch of London’s new “Super Tube”, a train system.
THE New Zealand reopened to tourists for the first time in two years, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the risk level of travel from Mexico to Covid-19 .
However, the situation has been very different in China under the “Covid zero” policy, where Beijing banned all restaurants and closed Universal Studios as the five-day Labor Day holiday began.
Italy’s “Little America”
The city italian of Sambuca, Sicily, pioneered a trend when, in 2019, it started selling homes for just over a dollar.
The problem was that the new owners would be responsible for revitalizing the local community by renovating the dilapidated buildings in three years. Now the city is home to a new wave of buyers, largely Americans, who have taken up the challenge.
Do not look down
The newest attraction Vietnam for adventurous visitors is the Bach Long Bridge, a glass-bottomed walkway suspended between two mountains in the province of Son La. It is 632 meters long and is almost 152 meters above the ground.
The structure has not yet been verified by the Guinness World Records but its owners claim it is the longest glass-bottom bridge in the world.
Source: CNN Brasil
