Photos of Lauvsnes, Norway
Travel articles Visit Obama's Oahu The February 2009 issue Condé Nast Traveler pays its respects to the 44th president with a guide to Obama's Hawaiian haunts, a sampling of eateries, beaches, and hang-outs far off the familiar, lei-strewn path of the typical tourist.
Red Rock The first billion-dollar resort and casino to be built off the Strip, Red Rock takes full advantage of a picturesque setting in the mountains. This luxury resort was conceived on a smaller scale then the typical Strip behemoth, resulting in a more intimate feel. Las Vegas flash is added with over three million crystals woven into the decor. Glass windows overlook the surrounding mountains. Golf Course Pictures of the Rosen Shingle Creek golf and spa resort in Orlando, Florida. Pictures of the Hotel Solamar Picture of a bathroom in a guest suite at Hotel Solamar, the newest Kimpton boutique hotel in San Diego just across from Petco Park. 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.
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