Word: sundowners
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...good sign when the most interesting feature of an art museum isn't the art. But many museums around the world show off great art and sculpture; only one hosts a massive colony of rare bats in its attic that stream out by the hundreds of thousands at sundown. Visitors gather on the sidewalks around the National Museum in Phnom Penh on clear evenings to watch the stunning exodus; and it saves them the $2 cost of admission...
...Darkness falls quickly in the tropics and after sundown, there's only one place to be: in one of the park's comfortably appointed accommodations. During the wet season, rates drop considerably. The Kakadu Resort complex, set on a 10-hectare bushland site near the South Alligator River, offers air-conditioned motel rooms (doubles cost $70 a night), powered and unpowered van sites, and a camping area ($3.80 per person); call (61-8) 8979-0166 to book. For those with slightly fatter wallets, there's the Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn in the town of Jabiru...
...contest enters its frenzied final 24 hours, nearly 20 percent of New Yorkers consider themselves undecided. Translation: By sundown Tuesday, precious few babies will be left unkissed and, if the weekend?s frenzy of recorded answering machine messages is any indication, no home phone number will be left undialed...
...living in the middle of a college campus. Even with an earlier closing time for Tommy’s, the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Street would still be a busy place. Will the residents’ next move be to call for a general student curfew at sundown...
...After a 30-minute drive east of the city into the desert, our group clambers into a fleet of 4x4s. There's some more dune bashing, air-conditioned this time, and after 90 minutes we arrive at base camp in time for some sandboarding and camel riding. We watch sundown, sucking on apple-scented tobacco through hookah pipes, before sitting down to a barbecue of salad, tabbouleh and lamb kebabs. After a slug of thick, grainy coffee and some belly dancing -- this is an all-in tour -- the convoy snakes back through the desert for the hour's journey back...