Photos of Albac, Romania
Travel articles Another Secret to Snagging Low Fares Airfarewatchdog--whose low-fare alerts I get in my email in-box every day--had an interesting post on its Airfare WatchBlog yesterday about "Secret Airline Deals": When it comes to air fares, it says, "the genuine steals often just languish unpublished, unadvertised, and...
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....
Book Review: DK Eyewitness Travel Guides You won't find too many travel books (if any) that surpass DK Eyewitness Travel Guides for detail and illustration quality. But do they actually benefit a budget traveler or do... 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.
Swimming Pool at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino Picture and details about the 11-acre beach and swimming pool area at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. |
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