Issue: January 19, 2009 (Archive)

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Amazing Amazon
You need a very good reason to jump into a river swarming with piranhas, caimans, dogfish, stingrays, snakes and electric eels. Heat was mine. "If I told you everything that was in the water," said guide Josh La Cruz, providing a short list of the notorious creatures populating the waterways of the Brazilian Amazon, "you'd never go swimming."

Small world after all
Some people say you can't really put a price on fun. I'm guessing many of them are billionaires and mortgage defaulters. Being the parent of a four-year-old, I am learning, means facing up to an epic collision of price and fun: the amusement park. What it offers, what it costs, what weaponry and waiting it will entail. In my household, we've just confronted this dragon for the first time, at a place that actually has a talking red dragon.

Christmas breaks: The Travel Guru says
Getting out of town for the Christmas break may be the best present you can give yourself this year. For those considering their budgets and the time they could commit to holidays, there are two good value-for-money destinations that may be appealing - in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Vienna calling
Just across Prinz Eugen-Strasse from the green copper domes and baroque overachievement of Vienna's Belvedere Palace sits a tacky little Greek restaurant. It's a good place to go drinking with your mother, at least until the conversation enters whatever-happened-to-the-good- old-days territory.

University fast track
I have never taken an antidepressant, but I think the effect will be like that of driving onto the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, California, for the first time. As the towering palm trees march past, a grassy oval comes into view, gamboling youths upon it and a cluster of red blossoms in the shape of an "S."

Heavenly Indies
If you vacation in the same place as David Letterman, Harrison Ford and Mariah Carey, does that make you rich and famous by association? Only a visit to four of the best Caribbean islands can answer that.

Regional carrier plays safe by hedging fuel costs
Tiger Airways, a budget carrier partly owned by Singapore Airlines, is keeping a consistent ratio of fuel hedging to safeguard against wild swings in oil prices, a company executive said.

Fare game
Amid challenging conditions in the regional travel market and high costs of aviation fuel, budget carrier AirAsia is making another bid to capitalize on demand for low-cost travel by launching a daily direct flight to Bangkok from Hong Kong at the end of October.

In love with Lijiang
The landscape is a feast for the eyes, and the music of the Naxi ethnic people fills the heart. Lijiang, in Yunnan province, is a destination to explore and experience. Located in western Yunnan and surrounded by mountains, the historic city is a five-hour bus ride from Kunming.

Carriers weigh charging for size
Imagine two scales at the ticketing counter, one for your bags and one for you. The price of a ticket depends upon the weight of both.

Class distinctions
Travellers in economy class occasionally encounter that inconsiderate passenger in front who leans back in his seat just when a meal is being consumed and a hot or cold drink is on the seat-back tray.

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