Snakes On a Plane Safety Video

Snakes On A Plane instructional Pre-Flight Safety Video......

Ruins of Orkney

A two minute tour of ancient crypts, cairns, castles, and churches, the tour is set to music from the biggest Gaelic band in Scotland: Run Rig.

WORLDHOTELS Launches Southeast Asia Historic Route Package

WORLDHOTELS is offering guests the opportunity to discover the cultural heritage of three of Southeast Asia’s most historically interesting destinations by visiting three unique WORLDHOTELS Deluxe Collection properties in Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore in an exciting new Southeast Asia 'Historic Route' package.

The tour starts or finishes with a trip back in time to Singapore’s legendary Goodwood Park Hotel. Set in a lush tropical garden the Goodwood Park was built in 1900 and all effort has been made to preserve the hotel’s unique original colonial architecture and interior design. The hotel is also ideally located near to the shopping mecca of Orchard Road.

The special package price of SGD255 (approximately US$162 excluding taxes) includes accommodation for either singles or couples in a Deluxe room with breakfast. An optional dinner in the hotel’s famed Chinese restaurant, Min Jiang can be added for the full experience.

Next stop is Siem Reap in Cambodia, home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the ancient temples of Angkor Wat. Here, guests stay at the recently opened Angkor Palace Resort & Spa, the only resort style hotel in the city featuring a modern day adaptation of traditional Cambodian architecture, spread over an impressive 11 hectares of lush landscape. After visiting the temples, guests can rejuvenate body and soul the ancient Khmer way with a 55 minute aromatherapy massage at the resort's Kainnora Spa.

The special package price is US$160 (single) or US$200 (double) and includes accommodation in a superior room, daily breakfast, three-course set dinner featuring Khmer cuisine and a 55-minute aromatherapy massage.

Finally, the exotic tour ends at the luxurious Furama Resort Danang, Vietnam’s first luxury resort set on the famous and unspoiled China Beach in Vietnam.

The resort is at the epicenter of four UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the ancient city of Hue, the old Silk Road trading port of Hoi An, the spiritual centre of the Champa civilization, My Son, and the mystical Phong Nha Caves. Excursions to these sites can be conveniently arranged by the Furama. Alternatively guests can just laze on the sandy white beach or explore the underwater world by going scuba diving, or even do an open water diving course.

The package is priced at US$394 (excluding tax and service charges) and includes two nights accommodation in a garden view room for two, daily breakfast, a cyclo tour to nearby Danang with a tour guide and one anti stress facial and a deluxe manicure at the Furama's beauty salon.

For more information on this exceptional historic route package please visit http://www.worldhotels.com/

Cambodia "Killing Fields" a Tourist Mecca

2 million people died as a result of genocide on this land, and it is expected that 1.6 million visitors will pony up big money to take a closer look.....

The 'genocide trail' covers Tuoi Sieng, Choeing Ek and the latest addition, Anlong Veng, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's last stronghold.

Pol Pot's shabby grave and a towering stack of his victims’ skulls are drawing a growing number of tourists, curious to see for themselves evidence of Cambodia's macabre regime.
Said Roberto Rossano, a tourist from the UK after visiting Choeung Ek, "The sight of these skulls absolutely shocks you, and it is just a fraction of what they did."

"Cambodia is known to the world for two things - Angkor Wat and the killing fields,” said Youk Chhang, from the US-funded research center, The Documentation Center of Cambodia on Khmer Rouge atrocities.
Chhang plans to turn his center into a museum, along the lines of Berlin's Jewish museum, which displays Nazi concentration camps and Holocaust sites.
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9 Wonders, 23 Days....$70,000

(Dubai pictured above)
Abercrombie & Kent will take you around the globe on a private jet with 48 other travelers to visit nine world wonders.....for a hefty price, of course.
The "Nine World Wonders" itinerary is:

1. The pyramids of Tikal in Guatemala, which are the remains of an ancient Mayan civilization.

2. The giant stone monuments on Easter Island.

3. Australia's Sydney Opera House, considered one of the most beautiful modern buildings in the world.

4. The temples and ruins at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

5. Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar (Burma), which is plated with solid gold, inlaid with jewels, and surrounded by woodcraft and mosaics.

6. The Taj Mahal in India.

7. Dubai, where mosques and traditional markets stand side by side with modern skyscrapers, hotels and malls.

8. The ancient stone buildings and ruins in the "Lost City" of Petra, Jordan.

9. The Pyramids of Egypt.
http://www.abercrombiekent.com/

Scientists Discover Why H5N1 Is So Lethal to Humans

The H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has claimed the lives of at least 241 people worldwide, is much more severe than ordinary human flu viruses. Now scientists believe they have discovered why that is the case.
The explanation lies in the patient's viral load and the subsequent inflammatory response, say researchers from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in an article published in Nature Medicine.

Early diagnosis and effective treatment with antivirals -- such as Tamiflu and Relenza -- to prevent an intense cytokine response ought to be the primary focus of clinical management, they advised.

Most cases of avian influenza infection in humans have resulted from contact with infected poultry, such as domesticated chicken, ducks, and turkeys, or surfaces contaminated with secretion or excretions from infected birds, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.