{"id":13957,"date":"2026-03-21T05:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/why-2027s-eclipse-of-the-century-is-worth-travelling-for\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:26:03","slug":"why-2027s-eclipse-of-the-century-is-worth-travelling-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/why-2027s-eclipse-of-the-century-is-worth-travelling-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 2027\u2019s \u2018eclipse of the century\u2019 is worth travelling for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"--widget_related_list_trans: 'Related';\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/12\/starlight-star-bright-the-rise-of-astrotourism-is-drawing-travellers-to-the-dark-skies-of-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astrotourism<\/a> has been among the biggest travel trends of the past five years and it shows no signs of slowing down, particularly with a solar eclipse on the horizon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2025\/12\/29\/2026-in-space-moon-missions-return-eclipses-sweep-europe-and-auroras-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\">\n<p>          <span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\">\n<p>          <span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the 2026 total solar eclipse on 12 August will be pretty special as the first, and only, one to be visible in Iceland in the 21st century, long-time eclipse chasers are already looking ahead to next year.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because 2 August 2027 will see the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2026\/03\/21\/why-2027s-eclipse-of-the-century-is-worth-travelling-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrotourism has been among the biggest travel trends of the past five years and it shows no signs of slowing down, particularly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-voyages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}