Bookmarked Travel – a round up of the best travel links and news for the week ending 5 August, 2016.
Travel News
Emirates plane catches fire in Dubai; hundreds escape, 1 firefighter killed [CNN]
The world’s biggest hotel will have 10,000 rooms and 70 restaurants [Travel + Leisure]
Incredible 100-metre long Coiling Dragon Cliff skywalk opens to public in China [Lonely Planet]
Mainland Chinese woman arrested for throwing orange juice at Cathay Pacific flight attendant [South China Morning Post]
This Swiss hotel is literally just a bed someone stuck on a mountain [Travel Pulse]
So, a Few Concerns About China’s Traffic-Slaying ‘Straddling Bus’ [WIRED]
Travel Articles
Murder (of crows) on the Orient Express: a weird and wonderful journey through the Balkans [Independent]
Vang Vieng, ‘Shagaluf’, Corfu: The cool destinations that aren’t hip anymore – [Traveller]
Airline pilots complain of dangerous fatigue in leaked documents [The Guardian]
The lunatic express – When he took the Nairobi-Mombasa train, Daniel Knowles saw a side of Kenya that is disappearing – which, in some ways, is just as well. [1843 Magazine]
How to visit nearly every national park in one epic road trip – Some legend has created a map of the shortest possible road trip through all 47 national parks in the continental United States. [Washington Post]
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