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TRO Travelgram: Jan 21
01-21-2013
Destinations
Monday, January 21
The Sunniest Destinations On Earth
Travelers have been chasing the sun ever since Europe's monarchs started constructing gaudy summer palaces. It is hard, after all, to relax while shivering... The Huffington Post
Like a local: See D.C. beyond the landmarks
From the top of the Washington Monument you can see the White House to the north, the Capitol Building to the east, the Lincoln Memorial to the west and the Jefferson Memorial to the south...USA Today
I Just Got Back From Medellín!
The cartel days are gone, and parks, museums, hotels and night life have arrived. Just don't tell anyone you took the Pablo Escobar tour... New York Times
Tours and Activities
Not as easy as Pi
In search of the increasingly elusive and endangered Bengal tiger...Sydney Morning Herald
Birmingham celebrates 50 years of civil rights history
Birmingham made history in 1963, and in 2013 the Alabama city will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the events that led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the beginning of the end of racial segregation in the South... USA Today
In a Minnesota Bog, a Festival of Birds
Amid tiny towns and deserted dwellings sits a world-class birding site, the Sax-Zim Bog, where people from around the world travel to glimpse hard-to-spot species... New York Times
Cruise
Luxury Cruise Ship Rescues Stranded Yachtsman
A French sailor is safe after being adrift in a life raft for three days on the Southern Ocean. Early Sunday, 62-year-old Alain Delord was picked up by Orion Expedition Cruises' Orion after his boat was damaged by rough weather near Tasmania on Friday...CruiseCritic.com
Princess Cruises adds more Tahiti, Hawaii sailings
Princess Cruises has added more Tahiti and Hawaii voyages for early 2014 in a change to its previously announced schedule... USA Today
Transportation
Heathrow cancels 100 flights on second day of snow chaos...
... and one in five will be cancelled tomorrow. Stranded passengers leave the airport, in the words of Simon Calder looking like a "refugee camp"... The Independent
TSA to remove controversial full-body scanners
The Transportation Security Administration confirmed Friday that it will pull the plug on airport scanners that produce a full body image of the traveler, replacing a technology that has sparked national controversy over privacy and safety... NBCNews.com
China's set to rule the skies of air travel
Industry analysts expect China to eclipse the U.S. in little more tha
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