Photos of Kashihara, Japan
Travel articles "Miracle on the Hudson" Conde Nast Traveler aviation correspondent Barbara Peterson learned how to ditch an aircraft as part of a flight attendant training course she underwent a few years ago. She shares her take on yesterday's incredible events--a USAirways flight landing in the...
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.
Could You Survive an Airplane Crash Over Water? Yesterday's miraculous Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549 has given rise to all kinds of speculation about the chances of surviving a similar crash.
About.com's own Guide to Air... Disney's Value Resorts The least expensive of the Disney World resorts, Disney's Value resorts put you in the middle of the magic for less. You'll forgo luxuries, but enjoy colorful Disney theming. Which President Was the Best Traveled? It would be an exaggeration to say that a great president is by definition a well-traveled one--Abraham Lincoln never left the United States--yet for most, leaving Washington now and then was both edifying and expedient.
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The Cheers Travel World / Kashihara photos