Travel articles
Grand Xcaret Occidental
The Grand Xcaret Occidental is a luxury all-inclusive beach resort on the Mexican Caribbean is adjacent to dramatic Xcaret Park. Cinderella's Pumpkin Coach
Picture of Cinderella's pumpkin coach, done in a hand-crafted mosaic, seen in the entrance to Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Disney's Value Resorts
The least expensive of the Disney World resorts, Disney's Value resorts put you in the middle of the magic for less. You'll forgo luxuries, but enjoy colorful Disney theming. Nose to Nose with Velázquez on Google Earth
A new layer on Google Earth offers highly detailed views of 14 paintings from the museum including Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 in Madrid, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. And by highly detailed, we mean images that contain as many as 14 million pixels.
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.
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