Photos of Kyaukse, Myanmar
Travel articles Moody Gardens The outdoor tropical swimming pool at Moody Gardens Hotel. 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.
Air Fare Sale to South America Remember our 2007 Dream Trip Contest winner, Gene Pembroke? At this time last year Gene was criss-crossing South America on LAN Airlines and blogging about it here. Gene shot this photo in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia....
Bed Bug on Human Finger Picture of a bed bug on a human finger. Guest Bathroom Shower: Pictures of the Travel Charme Hotel am Jaegertor, Potsdam, Germany Guest Bathroom Shower: Picture of the Guest Bathroom Shower of the Travel Charme Hotel am Jaegertor in Potsdam, Germany. |
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