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- New parts of Great Wall of China to open to tourists
- Around the world in a day at the Sydney International Food Safari
- 6 crazy fun things to do in Korea this summer
- Panda power! Chengdu remakes London cabs to drive tourism
- Then and now: The stories behind Southeast Asia’s heritage hotels
- Insider Guide: What to do in Berlin
- World's 10 most hated cities
| New parts of Great Wall of China to open to tourists Posted: 11 Jun 2012 01:13 AM PDT by Sean Silbert and CNNGo staff
The Great Wall of China is some 21,196 kilometers long, but tourists (domestic and international) have been only able to officially access around 30 kilometers of the structure. More on CNN: Great Wall of China longer than previously thought To accommodate swelling visitor numbers during weekends and holidays, authorities will open two more Great Wall of China sections to travelers. Access to additional areas is also aimed at preventing further damage by tourists climbing closed sections of the wall, said Kong Fanzhi, chief of Beijing's cultural relics bureau. read more     |
| Around the world in a day at the Sydney International Food Safari Posted: 10 Jun 2012 08:45 PM PDT Back in the noughties, you would've been hard-pressed finding a table at any of the dozen-odd restaurants and bars lining King Street Wharf. A former maritime industrial area on the east shore of Sydney's Darling Harbour entertainment precinct, it was the venue of choice for professional sportsmen, high-flying business types (or so they thought) and the odd wealthy tourist. Today, though, King Street is a very different place. Coupled with the impact of falling international arrivals to Australia and the resurgent popularity of other city-fringe entertainment precincts, you're more likely to see tumbleweeds on a wintry weeknight than the throngs that once minted this golden mile. That's why, in a drive to bring back the glory days, King Street Wharf will this month launch its International Food Safari, a two-week-long celebration of global food that kicks off on June 25. read more    |
| 6 crazy fun things to do in Korea this summer Posted: 10 Jun 2012 07:12 PM PDT by Hyo-won Lee Korea's "fifth season" -- the monsoon -- is here. But the summer showers do little to dampen the festive mood as some of the year's most anticipated music, film and big bashes open around the country. Korean festivals are getting more and more globally superlative every year -- here's where to go for some of the world's best live rock 'n' roll, classical music, horror films and mud-ball fights this summer. 1. Rock festivals galore
Jisan Valley Rock Festival (chosen among CNNGo's "50 music festivals for the summer") will raise its curtain first with a particularly strong British lineup including Radiohead, The Stone Roses and Beady Eye. Local faves to hit the stage include the veteran Kim Chang-wan Band and hip young indie group Busker Busker. read more    |
| Panda power! Chengdu remakes London cabs to drive tourism Posted: 10 Jun 2012 07:05 PM PDT by CNNGo staff Panda fever has spread from zoos to airlines, and now to the world's best taxis, London's famed black cabs. Some 50 London Hackney carriages have gone black and white in order to promote tourism in Chengdu, a provincial capital in southwest China and the native land of giant pandas. The "panda cabs" hit the streets on June 1 and will be cruising around London throughout the 2012 Summer Olympics, until August 31.
The specially painted cabs are part of a three-month program themed, "Panda cabs running for the Olympics." read more    |
| Then and now: The stories behind Southeast Asia’s heritage hotels Posted: 10 Jun 2012 09:19 AM PDT by Tina Hsiao and Jules Kay Before the Suez Canal opened in 1869, a clipper took three months to sail from from England to China. A steamship only a month less. Once the highway to India opened, the journey could be made in a mere 30 to 40 days. It was then that travel to Asia assumed new levels of style and luxury. Writers, playwrights, actors, the rich and the royal all turned their attention to the exotic East. Entrepreneurs then set about building a new breed of hotel to cater to the sudden wave of well-heeled globetrotters.
Built: 1884 read more    |
| Insider Guide: What to do in Berlin Posted: 10 Jun 2012 09:10 AM PDT Long known as a city that's always becoming, never being, Berlin is ever in a state of flux. Filled with historic relics that mark its role as imperial capital, seedy Weimar stomp, Nazi hive, Soviet stronghold and liberal bastion of the West, Berlin's latest transformation has been from post-Wall bohemian free-for-all to culture capital with global cred and a booming tech industry. Whether you're here for the world-class museums or fringy techno saturnalia, Berlin is as fascinating as it is protean. For anyone who knows where to look -- us, for example -- it's also full of surprises: contemporary art in a converted Nazi bunker, Michelin-starred restaurants, the massive "Little Istanbul" area and a vast system of navigable waterways that allows visitors to take it all in by boat. Wondering what to do in Berlin? Start here. read more    |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT by Jordan Rane Last week we got all loved-up with our ranking of the most loved cities in the world. This week we're feeling cranky. However, the worst thing that could ever be said about a city is not that it merits "top 10 most hated" status. No, the worst thing that could ever be said about a city is that it's not even worth discussing. Say what you like about these 10 places (and lots of people do), they all prompt conversation. OK, plenty of critical conversation according to our findings, but we mean that in the most positive light. read more    |
Newly accessible areas of the Great Wall of China are marked in blue. Authorities have yet to announce when they'll open.More areas of the Great Wall of China will be opened to tourists, according to a report by state media agency, Xinhua. 
The kind of crowd that, anywhere else, would make us hate humanity. But at Jisan Valley Rock Festival, we want in. 
"Panda cabs" will cruise the streets of London until August 31.
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