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...their llamas do the walking - 4,500 m up in the Andes, that is - while funding deserving local projects through Footloose Adventure Travel. The travel agency also accepts donations for Climate Care Trust, an organization that plants carbon-busting trees for every mile you've flown. MAMANUCA ISLANDS, FIJI (coralcay.org) Explore the South Pacific's many pelagic pleasures while checking on the health of a coral reef. Marine conservation volunteers from around the world are your dive buddies; expeditions, from two weeks upward, depart year-round. JORDAN (tribes.co.uk) After taking in the country's top sights - cliff-clinging Petra...
...believe we must have been cursed... When we have made the apology we will be clean again." Filimoni Nawawabalevu, Fiji village chief, before a tribal ceremony to assuage his village's guilt for consuming an English missionary in 1867. According to a contemporary report, the villagers ate all parts of the Englishman "but his boots...
...largely symbolic - many ambassadors said they voted for it only to maintain Council unity - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was now more optimistic about pledges at this week's donor conference in Madrid. But France, Germany and Russia said they'd give no more. MEANWHILE IN FIJI ... Belated Apology Hoping to lift a suspected curse, inhabitants of the remote mountain village of Navatusila have promised to apologize to descendants of a British Christian missionary whom their forefathers ate 136 years ago. According to village lore, their ancestors devoured all of the Rev. Thomas Baker except his leather...
...condemnation of a bloodless military coup while President Fradique deMenezes visited neighboring Nigeria. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira said he merely wanted to draw international attention to the island nation's continuing poverty, despite recently discovered oil reserves. Pereira agreed to talks with outside mediators. Constitutional Quandary FIJI The Supreme Court ordered Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to include members of the mainly ethnic-Indian opposition Labor Party in his government. The court ruled that under the constitution Labor was entitled to eight Cabinet posts - proportional to its 40% share of the vote. Qarase's government is dominated by indigenous Fijians...
Ever since a pipe burst in May in the basement of Let’s Go headquarters, the travel guide’s editors and writers have learned about a different kind of tourism—instead of Fiji or the Mediterranean, they have been forced to relocate a few floors upstairs to the company’s already-crowded cubicles, and will have to foot a very expensive bill for repairs...