Stunning Instagram Hotspot Is Really a Drainage Ditch

Plus, This Travel Site Can Recommend a New Hotel in Miami—Its Own [Manage newsletters]( [View in browser]( [Image] [Image] The entire world in your inbox. Hello all— I hope you’re doing well and allergy season doesn’t have you too down! So I have a bit of a confession to make.Today, [Daniel Modlin takes us to a lagoon-like spot in Utah]( that has gone viral because, in his words, “it looks as though a sliver of the Aegean Sea with its aquamarine-colored water has been transplanted to Mars—creating this singular strip of life carving its way through an otherwise barren wasteland.” Turns out, it’s actually a drainage ditch from a mine! But looking at the pictures of people kayaking and paddle-boarding on it, I kind of really want to go… Speaking of kayaks, at long last we have restarted our hotel series [The New Room with a View]( and we’re kicking it off with travel booking website [KAYAK’s first ever hotel](! Operated in partnership with Life House Hotels, and located in Miami Beach, the hotel aims to utilize technology to streamline the whole experience. Besides being a cute property, the biggest perk for me was definitely limited interaction! Rounding out this week’s newsletter, we have this month’s second selection for It’s Still a Big World—[Boyle Heights in Los Angeles](. Don’t miss it! — [William O’Connor](, Travel Editor [Image] [Stunning Instagram Hotspot is Really a Drainage Ditch]( [Ever since a photo of it went viral, the Blue Canal in Bonneville Salt Flats has been a popular, but controversial, Instagrammer destination.]( [This Travel Site Can Recommend a New Hotel in Miami—Its Own]( [The popular travel search engine is putting down some physical roots in one of the hottest destinations in the world.]( [Think You’ve Seen the Best of LA? You Might’ve Missed this Neighborhood]( [The East LA community of Boyle Heights boasts good food, friendship, and a deep culture.]( [How Your Wristwatch Can Save Your Life]( [Here's what you should consider the next time you buy a watch—and how to use it in a sticky situation.]( [Patagonia’s Rain Jacket Replaces a Cumbersome Umbrella]( [ ]( Patagonia has been making rain jackets for decades now, and all that practice has resulted in [a jacket](that can be stuffed into itself while still qualifying as the longest lasting and most breathable waterproof layer you’ve ever owned. The rain jacket is reliable enough to be taken into the backcountry, but it does just as well on rainy days in the city. The jacket's simple, lightweight design features an adjustable hood to cover more or less of your face depending on whether you’re trudging through a soaking forest or walking to get coffee on a slightly overcast day. A few other features like pit zips for when you need extra venting during hard exercise and a front zipper specially designed not to catch round out the jacket. Best of all, the fabric itself is waterproof without being insulatory and actually keeps you cool when it’s humid during a downpour. [BUY AT BACKCOUNTRY ]( [“Before the pandemic, around 1.6 million cruise ship passengers visited Venice each year, but they are among the most loathed in the city because they eat and sleep on the ships and don’t contribute anything but human traffic to the city. Before the pandemic, around 700 massive ships entered the lagoon each year.”]( —Barbie Nadeau [reports on the future of Venice and cruise ships given the government’s new ban](. [Miss Provence? This Book Will Help (or Hurt)]( It’s something many of you no doubt daydream about as we sit in this holding pattern waiting (hoping) for the world to open up—a late afternoon by a glittering pool at a stone farmhouse in the Provence countryside just as the mistral cools the blazing heat. That’s why our latest selection for our series on gorgeous travel-related coffee table books, Just Booked, is Assouline’s [Provence Glory](. With text from François Simon, the book explores what makes this pocket of the world so special. From Marseille to Arles, the book journeys up and down its hills, over its lakes and inlets, and along its winding streets. In the couple hundred photographs filling its pages it's hard to imagine you won’t find yourself adding a couple spots to your wanderlust daydream board. But it also might just be a trip down memory lane for many of you with the fields of lavender to scenes that could be ripped from a van Gogh painting. 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