Travel articles 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.
Celebrating Chinese New Year With a Worldwide Blog Carnival
The Chinese New Year is an excellent occasion for a travel blog carnival at
About.com: the Year of the Ox will be heartily rung in 'round the world on January... Do you need a gym at your Disney World resort?
Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotel for your next trip. This question is: Do you need a gym? L'Auberge du Lac Pictures
Pictures from our stay in a Deluxe Queen room overlooking the lazy river at L'Auberge du Lac Hotel Casino in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Around the World in 80 Days: Rediscovering slow travel
Read one travelers journey around the globe. He could not take a plane or helicopter, he could not travel more than 100 miles per hour, and he had to complete his trip in 80 days.
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