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More people are being vaccinated everyday and travel is already top of mind. Suddenly, the whole world feels in reach again, even if travel restrictions haven’t quite been lifted yet.
Most travel experts expect travel to re-open incrementally rather than all at once. We’ll see some countries loosening restrictions early on and others late to follow. At your destination, attractions and local protocols will change in phases, too. Remember, even if you’re vaccinated, not everyone else will be when you arrive at your destination.
Some travelers already know exactly where they want to go: canceled trips from earlier that have been rebooked or bucket list trips that seem more urgent after witnessing a global health crisis. For others, it might be more nebulous. Cabin fever might be constant but the details a bit fuzzy.
50 Spectacular Places To Visit Post-Pandemic
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More people are being vaccinated everyday and travel is already top of mind. Suddenly, the whole world feels in reach again, even if travel restrictions haven’t quite been lifted yet.
Most travel experts expect travel to re-open incrementally rather than all at once. We’ll see some countries loosening restrictions early on and others late to follow. At your destination, attractions and local protocols will change in phases, too. Remember, even if you’re vaccinated, not everyone else will be when you arrive at your destination.
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By PHILIP CHANDLER
Bongo The Stowaway Mouse New Zealand, started as a song about Bongo the mouse.
In the book, Bongo, having stowed on a plane that lands in NZ, undergoes various adventures and befriends Maia, a kiwi, and Molly, a wise old owl Molly also happens to be the name of Healy’s three-year-old daughter.
Maia and Molly even demonstrate a haka to him, but the latter tells Bongo mice don’t fit in with NZ’s ecosystem, so he’ll have to go.
Healy says she started the book about five years ago but completed it during lockdown last year.
Mountain Scene
By GUY WILLIAMS
The Whakatipu Conservation Celebration planned for tonight at the Kiwi Birdlife Park has been knocked on the head because of the elevated Covid alert level earlier this week.
But one of the speakers lined up for the event, local Department of Conservation boss Geoff Owen, says in a statement the community’s put thousands of volunteer hours into native planting and predator control efforts.
‘‘The birdsong is testament to this, as are the planted natives thriving where weeds once reigned.’’
He also gives a potted summary of other conservation efforts in the Whakatipu, including the wilding control group’s (WCG) operations covering more than 18,000 hectares since last July.
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January 23, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
As it ticked over 35 years last week, Queenstown’s Kiwi Birdlife Park shared a lot in common with the endangered species it supports both are in the business of survival.
In 2019, with visitor numbers totalling 55,000-odd, co-owner Paul Wilson says for the first time they turned away some guests ‘‘as it was so packed in here and staff were stressing out’’.
Come Covid-19 last year, when borders closed, a business that had 95% overseas visitation was on life support.
Though the wage subsidy helped, the lifeline was $495,000 from the government’s wildlife institutions relief fund.