Travel summary: 12 amazing things that happened this year

Travel summary: 12 amazing things that happened this year

This year was a turbulent year worldwide. A combination of political instability, aggression and forces of nature has made headlines.

The travel industry suffered how one could expect if safe areas are usually different. However, a number of strange, sweet or surprising events are hidden under the dark picture that entertained or inspired us in the course of the year.

These rang from silly (see April) to spectacular (December) and remind us that there will always be incredible people, places and events as long as people live on earth.

January: Beagle 2 is found

The British Sonde Beagle 2 was lost on the surface of Mars for over a decade. The probe, which was used under great sensation on December 19, 2003, was named after the ship that Charles Darwin took on his journey around the world.

"[HMS Beagle] led to our knowledge of life on Earth made a real quantum leap," said project manager Professor Colin Pillinger. "We hope that Beagle 2 will do the same for life on Mars."

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Unfortunately, the team received no contact at the expected time of landing on Mars (Christmas Day 2003). After repeated contact attempts, the mission was declared lost two months later.

his fate remained a mystery for over a decade until it was found in January 2015 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Hirise Camera of NASA intact on the surface of Mars. It is believed that two of the four solar panels of the probe could not develop and the communication antenna blocked.

Mission manager Mark Sims said about the discovery: "I am pleased that Beagle 2 was finally found on Mars. Since 2003 I have wondered every Christmas day what happened with Beagle 2. To have been honest, I had the hope of ever experiencing it."

February: Cold weather leads to a record murder

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New York City experienced a 12-day series without murder, the longest since the start of the recordings. Experts attributed the change to extremely cold weather, which kept the residents away from the street and trouble. The temperatures dropped to -16 ºC (-2 ºF) with wind showers that made it even colder.

March: New record for the highest tightrope walk

high rope artist Freddy Nock took our breath away when he broke the 30-year-old record for the highest tightrope walk in the world. The course between two Swiss peaks began at the Biancograt at 3,532 m (11,589 ft) above sea level and extended 347 m (1,138 ft) to the Piz Prievlus, the highest mountain in the Ostalps.

39 minutes the passage lasted along a plastic rope that was only 18 mm thick. It broke the previous record for the highest tightrope walk that Philippe Petit had set up between the two towers of the New York World Trade Center in 1974 with his legendary 411 m high gear.

April: Kim Jong-un climbs North Korea's highest peak

kim jong-un in north Korea's highest mountain: https://t.co/21fv7gd3cq

- Atlas & Boots (@Atlasandboots) January 4, 2016

The 32-year-old smiles at the view, looks extremely rested for someone who has just climbed the highest peak in the country-before breakfast.

his rise is one of several fantastic achievements that the dictator has accomplished, including learning to drive at the age of three, winning a yacht race against the CEO of a yacht company at the age of nine and shooting the biggest round of golf, even though he has never played the game.

national media reported that each of his 17 bodyguards had confirmed the record -breaking performance. In that case it has to be right ...

May: PISCH Pizza ordered for all flight delays

When a flight to Atlanta was on the ground due to bad weather due to bad weather for four hours, the passengers of course began to become impatient. However, the mood on board changed when the universal solution was given against the resentment: pizza. The pilot of the Delta-Airlines flight could be provided with the luggage car to the great joy of all pizza stacked on board. Passengers used Twitter to praise Delta for his pizza policy.

We sit on a runway that is stuck in an @Delta flight because of the weather. So throw us a pizza party! pic.twitter.com/qo0ntzvs4i - Riley Vasquez (@rileyvasquez) May 26, 2015

June: Kate Moss flies Easyjet

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in June Kate Moss made headlines after causing trouble on an Easyjet flight from Bodrum. Turkey, Luton London. The Daily Mail reported that Moss was led out of the plane because she had "swallowed vodka out of her hand luggage after her alcohol had been refused. It was picked up by the police in Luton, but no arrests were made.

The press reported the undeniable creative insult that Moss hit the pilot when she left the plane: "a simple bitch". It is not the bad behavior that we find amazing, or the brilliant insult, but the fact that Kate Moss, one of the most successful supermodels ever, flew with Easyjet. Even with our lean budget, we avoid it like the plague.

July: Cuba's flag blows over the message in Washington

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The diplomatic relationships between the USA and Cuba were officially restored when Cuba's Foreign Minister had the flag of his country in a newly named embassy in Washington.

to bring this into connection: the last time Washington received a Cuban Foreign Minister in this way was in 1958 when John Foster Dulles was Foreign Minister of President Eisenhower. The events in July followed a number of historical diplomatic conversations between President Barack Obama and Raúl Castro.

August: Delta enters the airline ban on trophy killings at

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The murder of Zimbabwes Cecil the Lion not only triggered a debate about the trophy hunt, but also drew attention to the airlines that transport trophies as a freight. At the beginning of the year, several large airlines, including British Airways, Emirates, Air France and Qantas, explained that they would ban the transport of trophies.

Delta, which maintains popular direct connections between the USA and several African countries, initially hesitated to follow this example, but changed its position under the growing pressure of travelers and activists. Spokesman Morgan Durrant said in an explanation: "Delta is officially prohibited from sending all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as a freight."

September: Humans of New York tells stories of refugees

In September, Brandon Stanton traveled by Humans of New York through Greece, Hungary, Croatia and Austria for ten days to find out the stories of refugees who traveled across Europe. The resulting photo series and accompanying narrative is moving in some places and almost heartbreaking on others.

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With its characteristic style - economical prose and simple sentiment - Stanton humanizes a group of people who have been compared in other media with swarms and vermin. The stories, reserved, but powerful, show the deep human connection, but also their fragility.

October: Foreign twins sit together in flight

The events took a surreal turn in October when the Glasgower photographer Neil Thomas Douglas got on a plane and found his doppelganger on the seat next to his.

The type on the right is my girlfriend's husband @elrottencrotch. The type on the left is a stranger he met on a flight last night! pic.twitter.com/kwbfooeomc - Lee Beattie (@lebeattie) October 30, 2015

Of course they took a photo that was later shared on Twitter. There it took off and collected over 23,000 retweets and 26,000 likes. The similarity is so remarkable that the media, including Guardian, BBC and Telegraph, were reported in detail.

Coincidence continued when the couple later checked in the same hotel individually and landed in the same pub. Douglas told reporters: "I went to the pub and there was my twin again. Total craziness. We had a laugh and a beer."

November: The Atacama desert blooms in color

The Atacama desert is usually the driest place on earth and certainly felt like we visited it at the beginning of the year. On the 1,000 km (600 miles) long strips along the South American Pacific coast, average rainfall falls per year.

In the central sector, periods of four years were registered without precipitation, and some weather stations have never been rain at all. It is all the more astonishing that this happened:

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flowers bloom every five to seven years in Atacama, but this year the most spectacular. The rare sight in spring is said to be the result of the El Niño electricity, which has caused the heaviest rains for two decades.

December: Tim Peake becomes the first British astronaut on the ISS

Major Tim Peake became the first British astronaut on the ISS after a flawless rocket start from the Kosmodrom Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Peap and his two astronaut colleagues officially entered space in less than 10 minutes on board the Russian Soyuz-FG rocket.

PEACH, a former army and helicopter test pilot, later spoke about a live connection with family and friends. "It was a wonderful start," he told them. "This sunrise was absolutely spectacular. We also enjoyed a moon ride that was beautiful. To Europe and Great Britain, I hope you enjoyed the show."