Travel-Tours of Asia’s Wild Side

Tours of Asia’s Wild Side

Now adventurous travelers are turning to the region’s wild frontiers for stunning natural landscapes and wildlife diversity.

The Asia program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which works to protect Asia’s wild places with governments and communities through ecotourism and other initiatives.
Tour operators are responding with new itineraries, including luxury tiger safaris in the jungles of India and bird watching in Cambodia’s Northern Plains.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/travel/tiger-safaris-in-india-and-bird-watching-in-cambodia.html?WT.mc_id=TR-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M246-ROS-0312-PH&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c=183232

Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life

Nearly everything about the Foxwoods Resort Casino is improbable, beginning with its scale. It is the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere — a gigantic, labyrinthine wonderland set down in a cedar forest and swamp in an otherwise sleepy corner of southeastern Connecticut. Forty thousand patrons pack into Foxwoods on weekend days. The place has 6,300 slot machines. Ten thousand employees. If you include everything — hotel space, bars and restaurants, theaters and ballrooms, spa, bowling alley — Foxwoods measures about 6.7 million square feet, more than the Pentagon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/magazine/mike-sokolove-foxwood-casinos.html