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...Mountain Travel Sobek This adventure-trip organizer works with grass-roots outfits to boost the local economy in countries like India and Sri Lanka. In China it supports the Nature Conservancy by training locals to be Yangtze River guides...
...collectors' latest hunting ground is along the Sepik River. Dubbed the Amazon of the Pacific, the river writhes and loops 1,100 km from the country's heart through some of the wildest and most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
...name Enola Gay painted on its nose would forget little about that long day. They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu, at 8:15 a.m.; the crew was 15 seconds...
...Rooms and suites are multistoried affairs stocked with antiques, and all feature spacious balconies with sweeping mountain views. An indoor pool, a spa, a rooftop restaurant (serving French-African cuisine), and a traditional bathhouse provide further opportunities for self-indulgence. If you insist on being more active, there are two tennis courts and a gym. Riding and hiking at nearby Mount Toubkal are also available. If that doesn't leave you on a holiday high, you can even make a nod to Branson's onetime obsession with circumnavigating the globe?by trying a spot of hot-air ballooning...
...Assassin's Paradise? Could it be hidden away in the cleft of a nearby mountain...