Word: hot-air
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...checkered history with cloak-and-dagger work. The Pentagon set up intelligence units in the early 1980s that were kept secret from Congress. They became rogue outfits, using tax dollars for questionable operations, to pay for expensive hotel rooms, first-class airline tickets and, in one instance, a hot-air balloon and a Rolls-Royce...
...Myanmar: If a nine-day Burmese biking tour (Dec. 19-27) tickles your fancy, then Butterfield & Robinson are the folks to call. Your cycling quest is complemented by walks through bamboo forests to isolated villages and temples, two nights on the Ayeyarwady River on a luxurious riverboat, and a hot-air balloon ride over the golden temples of Bagan. $5,595 per person, $850 supplement. tel: (1-800) 678 1147; www.butterfield.com...
...Myanmar: If a nine-day Burmese biking tour (Dec. 19-27) tickles your fancy, then Butterfield & Robinson are the folks to call. Your cycling quest is complemented by walks through bamboo forests to isolated villages and temples, two nights on the Ayeyarwady River on a luxurious riverboat, and a hot-air balloon ride over the golden temples of Bagan. $5,595 per person, $850 supplement. tel: (1-800) 678 1147; www.butterfield.com Southern India and Sri Lanka: Posh travel company Abercrombie & Kent would like the pleasure of your company on a visit to Cochin, Goa, Panjim, Malvan and Mumbai...
...vertigo at heights and suffer from motion sickness in cars, planes and boats. And I'm not the most adventurous person in general. So what in the world was I doing in a hot-air balloon thousands of feet over Albuquerque, N.M.? Simple: having the time of my life...
...nearby Humboldt Mountains, snowcapped year round, are known as the Southern Alps and offer excellent heli-skiing in the winter (which corresponds to the U.S. summer). My wife and I took a helicopter tour of the mountains, jet-boated up the Dart River, ascended 6,000 ft. in a hot-air balloon and trekked undisturbed in a vast beech forest. We also toured one of New Zealand's most impressive wine regions, Central Otago...