Photos of Masatepe, Nicaragua
Travel articles Swimming Pool at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. 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.
Do you need a kitchen in your room? 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 kitchen in your room? Lake Arenal, Costa Rica: Experience the zip line from your living room Get the best view of Costa Rica's largest lake by zipping through the area's lush forest. Check out this video.
More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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