Fun facts from around the world

Curious facts about destinations, sights and travelling, each with its own illustration. The same ones greet you every time you sign in to Activento.

  • Japan has cat cafés where you can play with cats over coffee, plus hedgehog, owl and capybara cafés.
  • Hallstatt in Austria is so popular with Chinese visitors that a replica was built in Guangdong province.
  • Sweden's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi has been rebuilt every winter since 1989 from Torne River ice. In spring it melts back into the river.
  • Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest intact, unflooded caldera: about 260 km² and 600 m deep, and home to the Big Five.
  • On Singapore Airlines' A380 Suites, two suites can be joined into a double bed, with a separate bed beside the armchair and turndown service.
  • Guatemala's Semuc Champey is a chain of natural limestone pools suspended over an underground river.
  • The Alhambra in Granada admits only about 6,600 visitors a day, and the Nasrid Palaces only at the time printed on your ticket. Tickets often sell out months ahead.
  • The world's largest airport by area is King Fahd International in Saudi Arabia: 776 km², almost as big as the entire island nation of Bahrain at about 787 km².
  • In Thailand every day of the week has a lucky colour, and many Thais dress accordingly.
  • Up to 200–300 people a year once died on Bolivia's roughly 60 km Yungas Road. Today tourists race down it on mountain bikes.
  • Latvia has more women than men, about 54 % to 46 %, or more than 115 women for every 100 men, the highest ratio in the EU.
  • The Galápagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the animals there are barely afraid of people.