Huge Titanic replica to open as Chinese tourist destination
By AFP
16 May 2021 |
4:08 pm
The Titanic is being brought back from the deep, more than a century after its ill-fated maiden voyage, at a Chinese theme park where tourists can soon splash out for a night on a fullscale replica.
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