Photos of Hofu, Japan
Travel articles Disney's Wilderness Lodge Set in Yosemite at the turn of the century, Disney's Wilderness Lodge uses trees, carvings and even a geyser to transport you from the middle of Florida to the Northwest. This Deluxe resort is a boat ride from the Magic Kingdom, and has a swimming pool with a short water slide, plus a small beach on Bay Lake. 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.
Cinderella's Pumpkin Coach Picture of Cinderella's pumpkin coach, done in a hand-crafted mosaic, seen in the entrance to Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Picture Riding the US Rails If you had to carry back liquids and gels in any appreciable volume after the holidays, you might have decided packing for complicated airport rules was a major drag.... Biofuel - the First Airline Trend of 2009 The green-ing of air travel is becoming a more permanent idea with the airlines. There are carbon offsets, some airlines have various recycling projects, you may be on a flight... |
The Cheers Travel World / Hofu photos