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Pictures of the Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso, a romantic, all-inclusive, adults-only luxury resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. 20 Largest Hotels
These are the biggest of the big ones. The largest hotels in the United States. And seventeen of the twenty are 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.
Jamaica: Beyond the Beach
I was updating material on Jamaica resorts this week, which reminded me of our own trip there a few years back, and how fascinating it was to learn a... Beds
Picture of the beds in Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World.
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