Our favourite things: February 2018

We've been here and we've been there, and our team have found a few things we thought we'd share

By National Geographic Traveller (UK)
Published 8 Feb 2018, 08:00 GMT, Updated 28 Jul 2021, 11:20 BST

Hiking in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

Photograph by GETTY IMAGES

Going wild

What: Chile's Route of Parks

Where: Running 1,500 miles from Hornopirén in central Chile, south to the Beagle Channel, through 17 of the country's national parks 

Tell me more: It's the largest donation of privately held land in history, adding 11 million acres to Chile's national parks. Part of the land was gifted to the government by Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia clothing. gob.cl  Amelia Duggan

 

Jump around

Get high at ZAPspace, a new trampoline park in London's Stratford. It's packed with drop slides, a dodgeball court and a tumble lane for fearless flippers. Once you feel suitably wobbly, find your legs at the venue's speakeasy, The Curious Fox. From £12.  Stephanie Cavagnaro

 

Top 4: Silver screen hotels

The Plaza, New York // Almost Famous
Trivia: Famous guests include the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Degli Orafi, Florence // Room with a View
Trivia: The room with that view is 414

Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce, Bruges // In Bruges
Trivia: One of the most liked unmade scripts of the year in the Blacklist 2006 (it was made two years later)

Hotel Des Mille Collines, Kigali // Hotel Rwanda
Trivia: 1,268 people took refuge here during the Rwandan genocide
Source: Expedia's new Ultimate Movie Buff Hotel guide  Maria Pieri

 

Sleep easy

The ancient inns of Japan seem to be having a moment. Historically a place for nomadic samurai and traders to rest up, ryokans look set to become the most popular type of place to bed down across the country. Airbnb is claiming a 600% rise in ryokan bookings for 2018.  Josephine Price

 

Which music festivals are on our radar for this year?

Wonderflip, Udaipur // Josephine Price

Littlegig, Stellenbosch // Zane Henry

End of the Road, Wiltshire // Amelia Duggan

NOS Alive, Lisbon // Farida Zeynalova

Meadows in the Mountains, Bulgaria // Stephanie Cavagnaro

 

In numbers: Picasso's Guernica unpacked

27/03 – 29/07
when you can catch a new exhibition on the masterpiece at Paris' Musée Picasso

81
years since it was painted 

1937
year of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica by Nazi and fascist Italian warplanes

25 x 11
the width and height in feet of the vast, monochrome mural 
Connor McGovern

Published in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)

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