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...style. Safari game drives allow close encounters with a host of beautiful beasts (just don't expect Tsavo or Kruger), and multiple soft-adventure activities are also on offer, from fascinating wadi walks to mountain-biking, kayaking through mangrove lagoons and snorkeling with coral-reef denizens - you'll probably swim with turtles and if you're lucky even glimpse the rare dugong. This is an imaginative alternative to the usual formulaic resort. Book yourself some Arabian nights...
...unintended consequences of political inexperience. "Burma's pro-democracy movement has long been an attraction for fantasists, fanatics and adventure tourists," writes Aung Zaw, editor of the respected online news magazine the Irrawaddy, sho covers Burma from neighboring Thailand. "Did John William Yettaw consider the consequences [of his swim]? Did he think for a minute that he would do more harm than good? Probably...
...lawyers. Two housekeepers, who have lived with Suu Kyi since her latest stint of house arrest began in 2003, were also charged. A doctor, one of the only other people with regular access to the opposition leader, was detained a day after the swimmer was arrested while trying to swim back to shore from Suu Kyi's home. Though Suu Kyi's lawyer has said she was upset to discover an unexpected visitor in her home, the democracy activist could still face five years in jail if she is convicted. (See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis...
...Osservatore Romano's genial review an unexpected blessing, somewhere between a celebratory puff of white smoke and the mild penance of 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys. We also hear that the paper's gossip columnist, Father Guido Sarducci, praised Tom Hanks for looking surprisingly fit in swim trunks. (See Tom Hanks' top 10 hairstyles...
...According to Burma's state press, an American man confessed to swimming across the lake in the cover of night and staying in Suu Kyi's compound. Identified as 53-year-old John Yeattaw, he was arrested on the long swim back to the other shore on the morning of May 6. The man was found with, among other things, an American passport, U.S. dollars, a pair of pliers, a camera and a five-liter water bottle that would have came in handy as a float, according to the government-run media. (See pictures of Cyclone Nargis' devastation in Burma...