Travel Briefs

In northern Wales, near the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, visitors can explore a man-made cavern strung with trampoline-like elastic nets.

At Bounce Below (phone +44 1248 601 444, www.bouncebelow.net), the visit begins with a 5-minute funicular journey 100 feet underground to the entrance of the cavern, which is twice the size of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. On foot, visitors then bounce around, navigating the cave’s trampoline-like elastic nets on a route linked by slides....

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In Bois de Boulogne Park in Paris, the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (8 avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne, 75116, Paris, France; phone +33 1 40 69 96 00, www.fondationlouis vuitton.fr/en) opened on Oct. 27. 

Designed by architect Frank Gehry and comprising 12 soaring, disjointed glass panels, the 41,441-square-foot museum is the new home of the Louis Vuitton company’s art collection. It will also feature temporary exhibits and artist performances. 

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In Paris, the lower level of the Eiffel Tower now has a glass walkway through which visitors may gaze down 187 feet to the ground below. The walkway is part of a $38.4 million renovation in which shops, restaurants and a museum were added to the first level. To allow better views of the city, that level’s safety barriers now curve outward.

Morocco has opened its first major museum since becoming independent from France in 1956. Featuring modern and contemporary Moroccan art, the Muhammed VI Museum (Angle Avenue Moulay El Hassan et Avenue Allal Ben Abdellah, 10,000, Rabat, Morocco; phone +212 [0] 5 37 76 90 47, www.museemohammed6.ma [in French only]) opened in Rabat on Oct. 7, 2014, after 10 years of construction.

Its first exhibit, “1914-2014: 100 years of Creation,” includes pieces created within the last 100 years...

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A museum dedicated to culture and art of the Maasai- and Maa-speaking peoples opened in Nairobi in early 2014. It includes exhibits on marriage, livestock, mythology, medicine, religion and social organization plus a replica of a Maasai manyatta, or hut.

The Maa Museum, Kenya’s first privately registered museum, is located at the Enashipai Resort (office on 5th Floor, Prosperity House, Westlands Road, Nairobi, Kenya; phone +254 20 5130000, www.enashipai.com).

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A new observation deck has opened in the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. An existing deck on the 124th floor was closed for two months in 2010 following an elevator breakdown (April ’10, pg. 80). The new deck, on the 148th floor and featuring an outdoor terrace 1,821 feet in the air, is the world’s highest viewing point within a building. (Now second highest, at 1,601 feet, is the one in Guangzhou, China’s, Canton Tower.)

Tickets may be purchased in advance for a...

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Tickets now can be purchased online for North Korea’s state-owned airline Air Koryo. In September, Spain-based airline ticket broker Destinia (US residents, phone +34 91 524 24 00, http://destinia.us) became the first agency to offer the tickets online.

The website offers three round-trip routes: Pyongyang-Beijing, China, starting at $962; Pyongyang-Shenyang, China, from $1,233, and Pyongyang-Vladivostok, Russia, from $1,865. 

In Amsterdam, the life of Vincent van Gogh, his development as an artist and his influence on art are examined in a new, building-wide, permanent exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum (Paulus Potterstraat 7, 1071 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands; phone +31 20 570 5200, www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en).

Along with his paintings, the museum now includes drawings and letters from the artist. Subjects such as his mental illness and suicide are addressed in the museum for the first time.

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