If you are rich, and that means exceptionally rich, and you want to get away from it all, try Blink.
Well-heeled vacationers pick a country or region and Blink, a vacation service from the high-end travel outfitter Black Tomato, finds a perfect, untouched parcel of land and they build you a popup hotel, complete with meals, staff and excursions, according to Skift.com.
So, pick the Arctic. No problem. Or perhaps an exotic locale in an exotic country like Namibia or the Kalahari. Or maybe a Yurt in the Andes. Try sand dunes in Morocco.
Sound good? If so, then Blink will not just tailor a trip for you, it will embroider a trip for you with all the tiny stitches like your own chef, guides, your choice of wine and bedding elegantly arranged in yurts, tents, bubbles or domes.
It's plenty salty. Expect to spend $65,000 on three nights in Morocco or $177,000 for the Bolivian salt flats.
And when you are gone — blink — so is the tiny hotel, leaving the landscape blissfully pristine once again.
Camera trapping
People, people. Do we really have to explain this?
Camera traps are set up to photograph wildlife in places where they do (or do not) belong.
They are not supposed to snap people. They are not supposed to photograph people in gorilla costumes, and, for heaven's sake, people in their birthday suits.
Yet, this is what camera traps capture.
In what appears to be an odd form of event travel, people are increasingly the subjects of camera traps. That came as a surprise to the Kansas Police who were just trying to get a glimpse of a mountain lion suspected to be in the area. Instead they got gorilla suits. (see pictures at atlasobscura.com)
Meanwhile at Virginia Tech, cameras captured a naked, and creative, man posing.
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