Visiting the Golden Bridge in Vietnam – the bridge held by giant hands in the mountains
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Visiting the Golden Bridge in Vietnam – the bridge held by giant hands in the mountains
The Golden Bridge (the bridge held by giants hands in the mountains) at Ba Na Hills, near Da Nang in Vietnam. How to get there, how much does it cost, and what to expect.
Golden Bridge, Ba Na Hills - Vietnam.
Travel Reads
Six random insights from Henry Rollins’ 2018 Travel Slideshow
“Former Black Flag front-man Henry Rollins has, over the course of his career, achieved notoriety as a punk-rock pioneer and prolific spoken-word performer – but in recent years he’s also become an advocate of slow, humble, close-to-the ground international travel.”
Paris Has a Brutal(ist) Side
“Love it or hate it, brutalist architecture has an unavoidable presence in every major metropolis– even Paris. In fact, the French capital is something of a haven for futurist concrete architecture.”
How this couple's drunken decision to buy a hotel in Sri Lanka paid off
After a few too many rums on the beach, one honeymoon couple decided to buy the entire hotel they were staying at that night.
Dirk Hartog Island turns back the clock 400 years to a time before European settlement
“An island off Western Australia’s north coast is being returned to its natural state pre-European settlement, with feral pests eradicated and a whole suite of native animals being reintroduced on the isle.”
World’s largest snake hunt hurts Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Each year millions of water snakes are pulled from Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, degrading this ecological wonder of the world.
The last lighthouse keeper of Capri
Punta Carena has been manned by a continuous line of 88 lighthouse keepers over the last 151 years. But now the final guardian of the light is preparing to leave his post.
The "passport scan" scam: There’s a thriving black market for selfies with pictures of passports
“Digital scans are vastly cheaper and easier to acquire than physical passports.”
Photography
Seven Square Miles, as Captured on Google Earth
“Snapshots from Google Earth, all rectangles of the same size and scale, approximately three and a half miles wide by two miles tall—showing seven square miles of the varied surface of our planet in each view.”
Instagram
LED lights of Ho Chi Minh City.