Photos of Sinegorye, Russia
Travel articles Disney Water Slides Disney World resorts have some memorable water slides, from the shipwreck at the Yacht and Beach Club to the roller coaster at the BoardWalk Inn. If you'll be spending a lot of time at the pool, check out these pictures of water slides at Disney World resorts. Chinese New Year: Year of the Ox Another New Year's Eve is nearly here: January 25 2008 is the night before the Year of Ox begins, and over at About.com's China Travel site, Sara Naumann's blog highlights... Cast Your Vote: 2009 World Savers Awards Taken a green trip lately? Booked yourself into an eco-efficient hotel? Conde Nast Traveler wants to know. We're looking for nominees for our annual World Savers Awards, which honor the best in earth-friendly travel, from hotels to cruise lines to airlines to tour companies. We'll send your nominees an application that covers five areas of good works: poverty alleviation, cultural and environmental preservation, wildlife conservation, health, and education.
Photos of Disney's Port Orleans Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida Pictures
of rooms, lobby, lounge and restaurant areas of Disney's Port Orleans Resort, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida 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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