We will miss them … If many destinations have reopened in 2022, the global pandemic has left its mark, some tourist attractions have simply closed, recalls CNN.
If for some, the end is definitive, for others, it is only the beginning of a new chapter.
Overview.
Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Singapore's Jurong Bird Park will close on January 3, 2023. Adobe Stock
Visitors can still visit it until January 3, 2023. After this date, Singapore's Jurong Bird Park, a famous bird park spread over 20 hectares, will close its doors.
The end of an era?
More like the start of a new chapter.
Because the reserve, with its 5,000 birds from 400 different species (some of which are endangered), will actually take its mark in another natural park, the Mandai Wildlife Reserve, in the north of the island.
Equipped with a zoo and a night safari, it will host an ecoresort in 2023.
Since opening in 1971, Jurong Bird Park has welcomed 41 million visitors.
It has a few stars, like Big John, a sulphur-crested cockatoo who proudly celebrated his 50th birthday, and Suzy, a 25-year-old American bald eagle.
Little celebrities that it will be possible to meet in the future ecological reserve, which is scheduled to open in 2023.
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The Jumbo Kingdom in Hong Kong
The iconic floating restaurant, the Jumbo Kingdom, bowed out in June 2022. Adobe Stock
Iconic place par excellence, the Jumbo Kingdom bowed out in 2022. The famous Hong Kong floating restaurant, 76 meters long, ended up leaving the port of Aberdeen, in the south of the island, in June, after y having been moored for nearly half a century.
Designed as an imperial palace, the mastodon could accommodate up to 2,300 people.
He has also received some illustrious visitors, such as Queen Elizabeth II.
In the grip of financial difficulties, the floating restaurant had closed for the first time in March 2020, in the midst of a pandemic.
Long popular with tourists, the Jumbo Kingdom had seen its attendance drop in recent years.
According to its operator, it had not been profitable since 2013. The Hong Kong investment company Melco International Development, owner of the restaurant, announced that it had found a new operator abroad, without saying more about the future of the restaurant. ship.
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The "train street", in Hanoi (Vietnam)
In 2019, the street had closed to tourists.
Three years later, the businesses present in the “rue du train” can no longer use their operating permit.
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It has long been the joy of Instagrammers, to the point that many jostled there, sometimes risking their lives.
The "train street", in Hanoi, has ratified its closure in 2022, reported CNN.
This narrow thoroughfare, lined with multi-storey buildings, is famous for its railway line that runs down the middle of its axis.
Many tourists sat in street cafes to be closer to passing trains.
Its popularity has repeatedly raised security issues.
Because, faced with the imprudence of foreign onlookers, the trains had to reorient themselves at the last minute.
Already in 2019, the Vietnamese authorities had closed the street to tourists for security reasons.
From now on, the businesses present in the artery will no longer have an operating permit.
Barriers have even been erected to prevent visitors from entering.
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The Underground Museum, in Los Angeles (USA)
In March 2022, the Underground Museum in Los Angeles closed
"until further notice".
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After a long closure, the Underground Museum reopened in January.
A parenthesis that will have been short-lived.
Two months later, Karon Davis, the co-founder of this alternative museum in Los Angeles, announced that she was closing the place
“until further notice”
, without giving further details.
Famous for highlighting black American artists, the artistic and cultural center offered free exhibitions of all kinds to the public.
It opened in 2012 on the initiative of Karon Davis and her husband, the painter Noah Davis, who died in 2015. From now on, uncertainty remains as to the future of the place.
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The Writers' Museum, in Dublin (Ireland)
After closing in March 2020 due to the pandemic, the Writers' Museum Dublin never reopened.
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Famous Dublin institution, the Writers' Museum said goodbye in 2022. Deemed to be aging, the museum dedicated to the great Irish writers and poets no longer met the expectations of visitors.
It had first closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic and had seen its reopening postponed for a long time, before the final announcement.
In operation since 1991, the establishment highlighted the life and works of famous writers, including Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
He also held some priceless treasures, such as a copy of
Ulysses
, autographed by James Joyce, or the first edition of
Dracula
, by Bram Stoker.
The most disappointed can, however, console themselves with the MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland), open since 2019.
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But also...
the Museum of London
: the establishment, specializing in the history of the British capital, closed its doors in December.
It will move to the Docklands district, where the Museum of London Docklands, dedicated to the history of the Thames and the Port of London, is already located.
The museum will reopen in 2026 as the London Museum.
the Al Saqi bookstore in London
: open since 1978, the literary institution will soon close a chapter in its history, weakened by Brexit, the pandemic and the political chaos in Lebanon.
The establishment is known to lovers of literature throughout the Middle East.
teamLab Borderless in Tokyo
: the establishment, considered one of the most visited museums in the world, is going to move.
It leaves its location in Odeiba for the Toranomon district.
The museum will be part of the huge Toranomon-Azabudai real estate project, which is due to be completed in 2023.
the Edo-Tokyo Museum
: the institution, devoted to the history of the Japanese capital, has announced its closure for at least three years for renovation.
2023 also means good news
...one of which is very important.
After being postponed several times, the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) should finally take place in 2023. The institution, which is located not far from the pyramids of Giza, will exhibit, among other things, more than 100,000 objects from the Egyptian history, including some iconic ones.
Something to satisfy archeology enthusiasts.
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