Created: 28 March 2012 [Travel] Full Version
It’s an exhilarating feeling. You’re sitting quietly in a game vehicle watching a pride of lions preparing to hunt. The lead female is staking out a young buffalo while her sisters circle round in readiness to spring the trap. The tension is palpable and then... the calm of the bush is broken by the sounds of a cell phone belting out “who let the dogs out”...
Created: 15 March 2011 [Travel | Tourism] Full Version Environment: Radiation levels outside Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Honshu, Japan, now pose health risk. Avoid the area.
This alert affects Japan
This alert began 15 Mar 2011 05:09 GMT and is scheduled to expire 18 Mar 2011 23:59 GMT.
Updated Information Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned midday March 15 that radiation levels around the Fukush
Created: 14 March 2011 [Travel | Tourism] Full Version Environment: Massive recovery effort continues in northeastern Japan after March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Expect severe commercial, transport, and utility disruptions.
This alert affects Japan
This alert began 12 Mar 2011 22:06 GMT and is scheduled to expire 16 Mar 2011 23:59 GMT.
Summary Recovery efforts are underway in northeastern Japan after an 8.8 magnitude earthq
Created: 14 March 2011 [Travel | Tourism] Full Version Environment: Explosion in reactor 3 at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant; Radiation level normal at Onagawa nuclear plant. No indication of imminent meltdown.
This alert affects Japan
This alert began 14 Mar 2011 05:37 GMT and is scheduled to expire 16 Mar 2011 23:59 GMT.
Updated Information A hydrogen explosion occurred at reactor 3 of the Fukushima No. 1 (Fukushima Dai
Created: 11 March 2011 [Travel | Tourism] Full Version Japan`s meteorological agency has issued its top-level evacuation alerts for the entire Japanese coast, warning of a tsunami of up to 10 meters (33 feet). A tsunami predicted to have a maximum height of 8.6 meters (28 feet) has already engulfed Kamaishi, Japan.
Specific wave heights and currents are amplified by irregular shorelines and are difficult to predict. Tsunamis generally com