Photos of Hatvan, Hungary
Travel articles 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.
Stanley Hotel The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired Steven King's 'The Shining,' has a few ghosts of its own. Travel Blog Carnival - Chinese New Year Celebrations One week from today, the Year of the Ox begins in China. Fortunately, you don't have to go all the way to Beijing to join in the celebration. ... 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... Bed Bugs From a San Francisco Hotel Bed Bugs Bites From a San Francisco Hotel: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. |
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