Photos of Tahta, Egypt
Travel articles Bathroom Vanity Picture of the vanity in the bathroom of Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. When a Flight Delay or Cancellation is Caused by Weather After the last blog entry about flight delays and cancellations due to the airline's own issue, I thought it might be good to look at the flip side - when... What's in Your Back Yard? Yesterday I took some visiting friends to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We spent a very pleasant hour and a half walking around this historic campus... 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.
Belize: An eco-paradise that's accessible and affordable Spectacular coral reefs mean some of the world's best snorkeling and diving, plus tropical jungles filled with Mayan ruins, butterflies, and a few jaguars.
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