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Snacking on green ants is not everyone's idea of the most delicious holiday indulgence. But on a recent walk through the Daintree rain forest in Far North Queensland, Australia, Aboriginal guide Keely Naden assured a group of uncertain guests that the traditional food source of her Kuku Yalanji tribe was worth...
...Lemon, tangy and full of vitamin C," she promised, picking a squirming insect from the trunk of a tree fern. She might have been right?but luckily for the native ants and the tourists, drops of rain came streaming down through the canopy, sending the tangy fare scurrying for cover...
...stay at an environmentally friendly resort. But at the Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa, where tree-house villas are set on stilts above the compound's waterfall-fed creek, it's hard to avoid a bit of communing. Located 90 minutes by car northwest of Cairns on 30 acres of rain forest next to the Daintree River, the Eco Lodge offers visitors a front-row seat at one of nature's greatest shows: the world's oldest continuously surviving rain forest. Dusk on any of Daintree's screened-in balconies is a noisy delight as an invisible chorus of birds, frogs...
...danced in commercials for 7-Eleven, Heineken, Pepsi and Apple's iPod. He has shown his stuff on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey. He did a Volkswagen ad that consists entirely of his gloriously funky reinterpretation of Gene Kelly's classic Singin' in the Rain routine. He even did a cameo in You Got Served. "The choreographer had seen [the video] and wanted me to be in the movie," Bernal says. "That's usually how it works. I don't have to audition. And even if I do, they just want to see if I can still...
April 3, 2006.The worst day of the year.Not because I was stuck on a crowded flight back to school. Not even because I landed on a rain-soaked, dreary runway at Logan Airport just hours after leaving 80-degree weather.No, the first Monday in April is the worst day of the year, every year. It’s NCAA Championship Monday, when all interest I have in sporting events gets packed away with the pre-made championship T-shirts of the unfortunate loser.As an almost lifelong resident of Oklahoma, I’ve never been attached to professional sports. Franchises...