Travel Briefs

The 4,000- year-old tomb of Mehu, located at the necropolis in Saqqara, south of Cairo, opened to the public on Sept. 17 after years of restoration work.

First discovered in 1940 and inaccessible to the public until now, the tomb has a colorful entryway that includes scenes of everyday life in ancient Egypt, depicting hunting, fishing, farming and dancing. Mehu was a high-ranking official under Pharaoh Pepi I. His son and grandson also were buried in the tomb.

The entry fee of EGP120 (near $6.70) allows access to the entire site, including the tomb of Mehu.

Starting in July 2019, Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" will be restored, in situ behind glass, during museum hours at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands; phone +31 20 6747 000, www.rijksmuseum.nl/en).

The painting, dating to 1642, was last restored in 1975 to repair knife-attack damage. The restoration will be streamed live on the website.

At Grand Motte mountain in Tignes, Savoie, eastern France, a cable car with a roof terrace has been introduced.

After taking a funicular from the village of Val Claret to the cable car base station (alt. 9,954 feet), passengers board the cable car, which can hold up to 100 people. As the cable car climbs to the top station (11,338 feet), reaching heights up to 1,640 feet, passengers can take the stairs to the roof terrace, which holds about 30 people, for 360-degree views of the Grand Motte glacier and Alpine valleys.

The largest butterfly enclosure in Italy, Casa delle Farfalle (via Canada 5, 33010 Bordano [UD], Italy; phone +39 0432 1636175, bordanofarfalle.it/en), is located in Bordano in the northeast.

Three greenhouses replicate the conditions of jungles in Africa, the Amazon and Asia/Australia, with butterflies from each region flying freely as visitors walk among them.

House of Butterflies is open daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., March 1-Sept. 30. €8 (near $9.10), adult, or €6, senior. A tour in English, booked in advance, costs €35.

Located on Norway's southernmost tip, Europe's first underwater restaurant, Under (Lindesnes, Norway; www.under.no), began taking reservations on Oct. 10. It's scheduled to open in April 2019.

Guests will descend via a walkway 5½ meters to the sea floor and be seated in a glass-walled dining room. Lights, sounds and smells will be used in the surrounding waters to lure sea life such as fish and seals to the windows.

The National Museum of Brazil, located on the campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was gutted by a fire on Sept. 3, with almost a complete loss of the more than 20 million items in its collections. No one was hurt in the fire, which occurred after closing time when no one was in the building.

The museum did not have a fire-prevention or -suppression system. Investigations into the cause of the fire were ongoing at press time.

Pakyong Airport (PYG), the first airport in Sikkim, an eastern Himalayan state in India that borders Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet (China), began operation on Oct. 8. The single-runway airport is located on a mountainside at an elevation of 4,500 feet.

At press time, SpiceJet (Gurgaon, India; www.spicejet.com) offered flights to Pakyong from Kolkata and Guwahati, India. Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines (Paro, Bhutan; www.drukair.com.bt) is scheduled to begin service from Paro, Bhutan, in January 2019.

Between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5, a data breach involving British Airways' smartphone app exposed the passport numbers and credit card information of thousands of customers. It is estimated that the personal information of more than 300,000 people was stolen.

Only the accounts of customers who used the app to purchase or change flights were included in the breach. Accounts of people making purchases or changes on the airline's website (www.ba.com) were not exposed.

The Greek island of Santorini is planning to limit visitors arriving by cruise ship to 8,000 a day by 2019. The ring-shaped island, located in the southern Aegean Sea, is actually the caldera of a massive volcano. In 2018 it saw upward of 18,000 people arrive daily during the high season. The island's total population is about 15,000.

Viking River Cruises (Los Angeles, CA; 877/705-7631, www.vikingrivercruises.com) announced that, as of Aug. 1, 2018, children under 18 would no longer be allowed on their trips. Previously, children as young as 12 could go on cruises.

Sister company Viking Ocean Cruises (www.vikingcruises.com) has been "adults only" since its inception in 2015.