Two children looking up at the car of the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway. Photo: Hemmings Motor News For five years towards the end of the 19th century, there was a peculiar seashore attraction at Brighton, on England’s south coast…
Year: 2020
The Million Yen Temple Experience: Kyoto’s Ninnaji
In the spring of 2018, the Kyoto temple Ninnaji announced its entry into the tourist lodging industry with a single, and singularly expensive, plan: a ¥1 million per night package. Targeting mainly affluent tourists from abroad, the plan accommodates o…
Which are the oldest cities in the world?
Of all the sorts of travel available these days – slow, fast, staycation, voluntourism, and the rest – there remains one format all but out of reach. Time travel. It will likely never be possible in the HG Wells sense – turning back …
Australia bushfires unearth a 6,600-year-old Indigenous fish-trapping system
The Australian bushfires have unearthed parts of a 6,600-year-old indigenous fish-trapping system in southwest Victoria. Flames swept through the state earlier in the season, unveiling new sections of the structure previously hidden by vegetation in the…
Russia’s mysterious ‘City of the Dead’
Just outside the remote Russian village of Dargavs lies a medieval necropolis fittingly called the “City of the Dead”. This ancient burial ground holds the remains of more than 10,000 people – many of whom lie eternally with their clothes and belo…
Love Le Corbusier? Now you can build like him—out of paper
Chandigarh, India, is a city known for its clean streets, green spaces, and numerous monuments. One sculpture, an 85-foot-tall symbol known as “Open Hand,” was designed by Swiss-French architect, designer, and urban planner Le Corbusier. The pioneer…
Kisumu woos tourists for Unesco-listed Kit Mikayi rock
The Kisumu administration has begun a campaign to market the Kit Mikayi rock, which received the Unesco world heritage site status in December last year. Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o announced Kit Mikayi’s listing as a world cultu…
The Abandoned Cryolite Mining Town of Ivittuut
Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered pieces of old machinery. Ivittuut was once the world’s largest source of cryolite, an extremely rare mineral that w…
Hundreds more Terracotta Warriors unearthed in China
Grieving dog owner’s ‘message in a bottle’ found in Germany
A message in a bottle from a heartbroken dog owner in Wirral appears to have travelled hundreds of miles across the North Sea before being washed up in Germany. It was found by a volunteer ranger from the Wadden Sea conservation station (Schutzstation W…