Travel news: Glass bridges, space hotels and a beautiful reunion after 23 years

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN

In this week’s travel news roundup, we appear at room inns by the ages, Sicily’s new “Little America” and a new glass-bottomed bridge in Vietnam that might just be the world’s longest.

Relationship restored

CNN Journey normally handles gorgeous and touching moments in between passengers on life’s journey. But every so normally, CNN gets to be a character in the story, way too.

That took place this week when an short article posted previous weekend served two former refugees obtain the variety stranger who gave them $100 on a aircraft more than 20 yrs in the past. Here’s how it occurred.

In a different story back in 2021, we aided clear up the mystery of some 60-year-old photographs that experienced been uncovered in an Amsterdam flea market place.

The finder of the pics, Jennifer Skupin of Germany, was highlighted in our tale. Susanna Stevens-Johnson — a 71-calendar year-previous Yup’ik girl who is aspect of Alaska’s indigenous neighborhood — was then shocked to see very long-misplaced childhood illustrations or photos online of her aged classmates, neighbors and mates in a village that had because been abandoned. Observe our video clip and read through the whole story here.

Room resorts: 1967 to now

Concepts for area accommodations have been floating all around given that the incredibly dawn of room exploration. Back again in 1967, just before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the moon, the Hilton hotel chain was setting up a lunar hotel with rooms beneath the moon’s area.

In 2011, Russian firm Orbital Systems announced its strategies for a hotel floating 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) over Earth. There was no bar or even showers, but you could clean up up with moist wipes.

California-centered Orion Span experienced hopes in 2018 to launch $10 million outings to its luxurious Aurora Space Station this yr, but the organization shut down operations prior to that took place.

Now an additional California corporation is reaching for the stars. Orbital Assembly has just unveiled new facts and principles for its area resort layouts, 1st touted in 2019. Its futuristic vision is for a rotating wheel orbiting Earth — but will our planet’s substantial rollers at any time get a spin?

On the transfer all over again

Australia’s Qantas airline has disclosed new strategies for the world’s longest nonstop flights — an 18-hour schlep that it hopes to launch amongst Sydney and London by the conclusion of 2025.

And in the United kingdom, a date has been established for the start of London’s new “Super Tube.” (And if you’re a fan of trains, examine out this stunning rail working experience fresh new out of Taiwan).

New Zealand has reopened to travelers for the initial time in two decades, and the US Facilities for Disease Command and Avoidance has downgraded Mexico’s journey threat degree for Covid-19.

The situation has been extremely unique underneath the zero-Covid coverage in China, however, wherever Beijing banned all restaurant eating and shut down Common Studios as its 5-day Labor Day holiday bought less than way.

Italy’s ‘Little America’

The Italian town of Sambuca in Sicily pioneered a craze when, in 2019, it started selling residences for just in excess of a greenback.

The capture was that the new house owners would be liable for revitalizing the nearby neighborhood by refurbishing the crumbling structures inside 3 decades.

Now, the town is residence to a fresh new wave of mostly North American buyers who took on the problem. Here’s how they’re obtaining on.

Really do not glimpse down

Vietnam’s latest attraction for adventurous site visitors is Bach Extended bridge, a glass-bottomed walkway suspended in between two mountains in Son La province. It’s 632 meters (2,073 ft) very long and just about 152 meters (500 toes) higher than the ground. It’s but to be confirmed by Guinness World Documents, but its owners claim it’s the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge.

In circumstance you missed it

Brazil has a brand-new statue of Jesus.

And it is approximately 5 meters taller than Rio’s Christ the Redeemer.

We looked at the world’s most highly-priced passports.

Two of the priciest are neighboring countries in the Center East.

The shocking origins of the common American hamburger.

It started with uncooked mutton warmed in a horse rider’s saddle.

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