In our roundup of travel news this week: Dubai’s $800 incentive scheme to lure back tourists, a “firenado” in Utah, plus some of the wildest filming locations in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
Mount Olympus
If you think the 172-minute runtime of Christopher Nolan’s Mediterranean epic “The Odyssey” is long, just consider Greece’s 12-year wait for Mount Olympus to be made a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hovering at 9,570 feet over the Aegean coast near the Macedonian border, Mount Olympus is Greece’s highest mountain and, before the long-awaited honor this week, was already a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and home to the country’s first national park.
It’s also the fabled home of the 12 Olympian deities of Greek mythology. The mount’s craggy subpeaks, deep gorges, forested flanks and cloud-bathed summit all combine to make it a worthy “Mountain of the Gods.”
