TRO Travelgram - Tuesday, June 30

Destinations
The King and I: An audience with Tutankhamun
After the bustle of Cairo, what better way to explore the land of the pharaohs than on a cruiser gently floating down the Nile... The Independent

Ferrara, Italy: My kind of town
Sarah Dunant enjoys wandering historical Ferrara and being transported back to 15th century Italy... Telegraph (London)

Philadelphia Essentials
The City of Brotherly Love offers much more to see than just the Liberty Bell... IndependentTraveler.com

Tours and Activities
Obama immortalized in wax
President marks Paris milestone — as a statue in wax museum... MSN.com

North America's Top 15 Vacation Spots
Experts rank the most popular trips worldwide... Forbes Traveler

In Puerto Rico, a Rain Forest Full of Easy Adventure
Set among the Luquillo Mountains, El Yunque is the only tropical rain forest in the United States national forest system... New York Times

Cheers, Florida, for many great places to drink!
Florida has 23,398 licensed places to sit and drink a beer, wine or a cocktail. A long "research" trip around the state found many bars reflect the wild, eclectic, historic and often bizarre character of the state itself... Yahoo Travel News

Cruise
Carnival: Coup in Honduras won't affect cruise ship calls in Roatan
Carnival says the 2,974-passenger Carnival Valor and 2,124-passenger Carnival Legend will go ahead with port calls in Roatan on Wednesday and Friday, respectively... USA Today

Report: 'Pure good fortune' no one killed on storm-tossed cruise ship
Remember that P&O Cruises ship caught in a vicious storm off the coast of New Zealand last summer? A soon-to-be-released analysis of the unusual incident says it was "pure good fortune" nobody was more seriously injured or killed... USA Today

Transportation
Plane with 153 crashes off Comoros, child rescued
A passenger jet carrying 153 people from Yemen crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros... Yahoo Travel News[Back to Press Releases Main]