Photos of Monte alegre, Brazil
Travel articles Post-Holiday Travel Planning Whatever your seasonal celebration was, it's just about over and if you're in the US and headed back to school or finished with family time, you'll be braving the crazy... 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.
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... Bring Donations For Kids Heading to a resort in a tropical country? Often, such countries are home to many needy kids. Why not pack some school supplies, baby clothes, toys, or other gifts... Bed bug Bites on Her Neck Male, back: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. |
The Cheers Travel World / Monte alegre photos