Photos of Taremskoye, Russia
Travel articles Beat the Bidding System Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Grand Floridian Resort The flagship Disney World resort, Disney's Grand Floridian Resort surrounds you with stately, turn-of-the-century charm. The Grand Floridian is located across the lake from the Magic Kingdom, and is on the monorail line. Disney's Grand Floridian Resort has a full-service spa and the only Disney restaurant with a dress code, Victoria and Albert's. Exterior of an Igloo Spend the night in one of these igloo hotels, made entirely of snow and ice. Disney's Port Orleans Atmospheric resort inspired by the Old South features willow trees lining a river, New Orleans-style architecture, and a large outdoor playground. 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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