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...snorkeling fans, the Royal Diving Club in the resort area of Aqaba is the perfect place to combine a quick swim with a chance to spot lionfish, snappers and barracuda in the wreck of the container ship Cedar Bride, which lies 20 meters deep in the warm waters off Rainbow Reef. Read more details at www.jptd.com.jo...
...About a million people are expected to attend, says fiesta director Pat Brake, with a showing of some 750 corporate, private and balloon-company vessels from 30 countries. As many as 60% of these balloon enthusiasts--spectators, passengers and pilots--are 50 or over, says Scott Appelman, president of Rainbow Ryders Inc., a full-service balloon company that is the official ride operator for the fiesta...
...Ottoman architect Mimar Hajrudin under the rule of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. It was an early architectural marvel, linking the high banks with an improbably long arch of white stone more than 20 m high. One traveler likened the bridge to a bow stretched toward heaven, another to a rainbow - an impression shared by holidaymakers into the modern era because of the pink light that bathes the valley in summer. Turkish builders overseeing the construction will use 140 of the original stones. The remaining 1,088 have been cut from the same quarry that Ottoman builders used in the 16th...
Prairie grass ripples along the shores of North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea, and a fat rainbow shimmers overhead. Here, if Amy Mossett has her way, an $11 million interactive museum will soon welcome visitors to the Lewis and Clark trail. Mossett, tourism director for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes, is building replica earth lodges and planning sleep-in-a-teepee packages with ethno-botany hikes, buffalo-hide painting and lectures on tribal trade networks--insect repellent included. Her message: "Come and meet the descendants of the people who provided shelter to Lewis and Clark...
...There are even some newcomers, including the Scot-Indian Cameron. After living in Australia, Britain and Africa, he says he's finally found his home. Before arriving in McCluskieganj, his restless blood led him through a rainbow of identities, from Indian army captain to cocktail pianist, author to pilot, headmaster to racehorse breeder. Yet only in McCluskieganj, he says, among his fellow outsiders, is he truly himself. "Because I'm rather swarthy, people in England and Australia mistake me for an African or an Aboriginal," he says. "Nobody knows who you are or what you are. But here, in this...