Photos of Kariotissa, Greece
Travel articles Travel Blog Carnival - Chinese New Year Celebrations One week from today, the Year of the Ox begins in China. Fortunately, you don't have to go all the way to Beijing to join in the celebration. ... Travel Resolutions I am sure most of you will be as happy as I am to see the back of 2008. It has been a horrific year for the world's economy,... Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard? While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Exterior of an Igloo Spend the night in one of these igloo hotels, made entirely of snow and ice. When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by the Airline Having worked for an airline for almost 15 years, I've seen a lot of the unavoidable reality of air travel - flights will delay or cancel. There are two types... |
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