Bookmarked Travel – a round up of the best travel links and news for the week ending 15 July, 2016.
Travel News
Bahamas issues US travel advisory following police shootings [Travel Pulse]
High-speed rail link between Melbourne and Sydney proposed by private company [ABC Australia]
Tourist faces deportation from Burma because of problematic tattoo [NZ Herald]
American gored during Pamplona bull run [The Daily Beast]
Czechs not exactly thrilled about ‘Czechia’ [City Lab]
He cofounded Kayak, sold it for $2 Billion, and is back with Lola, which uses human travel agents [Forbes]
How safe are Asia’s airlines? [Al Jazeera]
Sydney voted number one city by Travel + Leisure [Travel Daily News]
Travel Lists
A-Z of 2016 World Airline Awards winners [Skytrax World Airline Awards]
Best in Asia – Lonely Planet release their top 10 picks for Asia in 2016. As per usual with these LP lists there some overlooked destinations here (like Ipoh, Malaysia). [Lonely Planet]
The 25 best tourism websites in the world in 2016 [Skift]
Travel Articles
The world’s dumbest, greatest adventure – Mongol Rally participants drive 10,000 miles across Europe and Asia without a clue [The Awl]
1 month Eurail Global Pass review – How I visited 57 cities in 31 days [Nomadic Notes]
Travel Photography
You won’t believe what photographer Kevin Russ can do with an iPhone [Intrepid Travel]
The best iPhone photographs of 2016 – in pictures [The Guardian]
