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- | Getting around | + | For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks |
- | Macao’s airport, located on eastern Taipa, is small but modern and easy to navigate. Home to a single terminal, most of its flights are from around the region, with regular connections to places like Singapore, Jakarta, Hanoi, Bangkok | + | The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography |
- | The mammoth Hong Kong-Macao-Zhuhai Bridge, the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge, was completed in 2018. It is just one of many Chinese projects intended | + | But all that is about to change. |
- | Despite | + | Located at Talbot Bay, a remote spot on the country’s northwestern coastline, the falls are created when surges of seawater pour between two narrow cliff gaps, creating |
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+ | For decades, tours have pierced these gaps on powerful boats, much to the dismay of the area’s Indigenous Traditional Owners, who say the site is sacred. | ||
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+ | It’s not the only reason the boat tours are controversial. In May 2022 one boat hit the rocks resulting | ||
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+ | Although the boat trips have continued, the concerns of the Indigenous Traditional Owners have now been heeded, with Western Australia, the state in which the falls are situated, saying they will be banned in 2028 out of respect. | ||