Offering up to 90 guided walks to choose from, the 9-day Crickhowell Walking Festival is held each year at the end of February in the town of Crickhowell, Wales (Crug Hywel in Welsh). The festival (in 2018, Feb. 24-March 4) is the largest in the UK.
A more modern anthropological Olduvai Gorge Museum opened at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania on Oct. 3, replacing a smaller museum at the site. The museum is home to the archaeological and anthropological findings at Olduvai and sits at one of the excavation sites of Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey, who discovered the 1.75-million- year-old Zinjanthropus boisei skull in 1959.
The museum will also display re-creations of archaeological finds from neighboring countries.
Travelers with limited mobility planning to visit the Czech Republic will benefit from the new brochure “Four Accessible Walks in Prague.”
Covering the city’s most famous landmarks in Old Town, the Castle District, Lesser Town and Vyšehrad, it has maps with icons indicating terrain information, levels of accessibility and available facilities for both the mobility-impaired and wheelchair users.
Austria’s Federal Railways, or ÖBB (www.oebb.at/en), now picks up passengers at Vienna International Airport (VIE). Trains from VIE depart twice hourly to Salzburg, once an hour to Innsbruck and once every two hours to St. Anton and Bregenz. Tickets can be purchased on location or in advance online.
The European Union (EU) opened the House of European History (Rue Belliard 135, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; www.europarl.europa.eu/visiting/en/
brussels/house-of-european-history) in May 2017.
Located in Brussels’ Parc Léopold, just north of the European Parliament, the museum’s 1,500 exhibits chart how European countries have interacted, covering the late 19th century, 20th-century wars, the formation of the European Union, efforts at continental cooperation and the outlook of the EU’s future.
In 2014, it was discovered that art dealer Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Nazi art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, had hoarded more than 1,500 unreported works of art in his Munich apartment, most suspected to have been stolen by the Nazis. Cornelius died before facing trial for tax evasion, and he left his collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern. Until March 11, 2018, more than 400 of the works can be seen in two locations.
• Kunstmuseum Bern (Hodlerstrasse 12, Bern, Switzerland; phone +41 31 328 09 44, www.kunstmuseum
Climbing will not be permitted on Australia’s Uluru (Ayers Rock) starting on Oct. 26, 2019. The decision to ban climbing was made by the landmark’s owners, the Anangu, who consider it sacred. The Australian government returned Uluru and the surrounding land to the Anangu, who had lived there before European contact, in 1985.
Aerolineas Argentinas canceled flights to Venezuela on Oct. 9, joining a growing group of airlines that have ceased flying to that country, among them Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Aeromexico, Avianca and LATAM. Concerns over safety and security as well as the hyperinflation of Venezuelan bolivars were cited as reasons for ending flights.
As of press time, nine airlines had flights to Venezuela: Air Europa, Air France, American Airlines, Avior Airlines, Caribbean Airlines, Copa Airlines, Iberia, TAME and Turkish Airways.
To learn how to photograph the City of Light after dark, visitors to Paris can take the private, 3-hour “Paris Night Photo Tour” with Aperture Tours (25 rue de Cotte, 75012, Paris, France; phone +33 6 17 08 54 45, www.aperturetours.com). Tour members of any skill level will learn night-photography basics, night portraiture, long-exposure techniques and more.
A tour costs €180 (near $214) for one person and €30 for each additional person up to four. Start time depends on season.
Holding more than 15,000 native saltwater and freshwater species, the Cairns Aquarium (163 Abbott St., Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia; phone +61 7 4044 7300, www.cairnsaquarium.com.au) opened in September.
One feature is an acrylic tube in which visitors can sit and watch sharks and rays swim overhead. The tube leads to the Oceanarium, a 528,000-gallon, cylindrical acrylic tank full of sea life and encircled by a walkway. Aquarium hours are 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. AUD42 (near $33) adult, AUD34 senior or AUD28 child.