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Traveling while vegan: As more Americans eat greener, the travel industry is rolling out the plant-based welcome mats with hotels, restaurants, and even interior designs catering to vegetarians and vegans, the New York Times reports. The Anse Chastanet resort in St. Lucia, for example, offers vegan cooking classes, a vegan restaurant, and a craft brewery that produces vegan beers.
New tools for pandemic travel: Calculators that assess your risk before travel. Easy-to-get COVID-19 tests. Nat Geo rounds up these and other steps to make your next trip safer. One thing we learned: There’s now COVID insurance often rolled in to travel insurance, often covering quarantine costs abroad or even evacuation and repatriation if you get sick, Jackie Snow reports. Under construction: Officials are considering limiting the number of visitors at Yosemite National Park this summer. Construction projects have raised concerns of major gridlock, SF Gate reports. One park campground—North Pines—is so popular it’s trying on a lottery for a chance to make reservations, CNN reports. Chances are 10 bucks and will be sold through Feb. 6.
Talking Turkey: No longer wanting to be confused with poultry or a slang word that means “fool,” the nation of the same name wants to be known as Türkiye. Nearly 100 years after becoming an independent republic, the country is looking to reclaim its identity globally, AFAR reports. Now, here’s how to pronounce it.
Take the scenic route: It might be called the Glacier Express, but this may be the world’s slowest train. That isn’t a bad thing as many of us are taking our time to savor our travel. The incredibly scenic rail excursion takes eight hours traveling through Switzerland at about 18 mph, traversing 300 bridges and taking in stunning Alpine views on the way, Time Out writes.
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