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Show The Salt Lake Cribune ravel GETAWAYS *ACCOMMODATIONS¢ FARES WHERE ARE YOU? Page H-2 SUN DAY, JANUARY 14 BUSY TIJUANA Page H-5 TOM McCARTHEY Here's What YUKON See and Do in Depths of Winter at Top of DELTA DROPSDISNEY Delta Air Lines has been - dropped as the official airline of Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The decision apparently was financially based Disneytargets leisure travelers, while Delta has concentrated on business travelers Delta will, however, serve as official sponsor for Walt Disney World's 25th anniversary celebration in 1997 oO BELIZE IS HODGEPODGE Belize is the only Englishspeaking country in Central America. Slowly, transforma- tion into a Spanish-speaking nation is taking place. Large numbersof Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans have crossed the border, many unskilled peasant farmers, at- tracted toits political stability Twenty-three years ago, this the World By Jose Lambiet NEW YORK DA \ One of Sulawesi’s underwater treasures — black crinoid on sea fan. MANADO Though boththeBritish and Spanish occupied the tiny countryat different times, the original inhabitants were the Hence, one of the great attractions about Belize is its Mayanruins. Unlike its neigh- bors, Belize has chosento leave the ruins in the condition they were found 1600s, these buccaneers, using Belize as a permanent base, at- tacked Spanishgalleons carry ing gold, silver, dyes and hardwood. Many of the original Scots and Brits intermarried with freed slaves to form the Creole majoritythat still domi nates the population Mexicancitizens came from the north; Mopan and Kekchi Indians from the south. A small contingent of Confeder- ate Civil War veterans from the United States made their wayto Belize to begin a plantation, From the Bay Islands off Honduras camea large number of Garifuna people, blacks of mixed African and Carib Indian ancestry who were expelled from the West Indiesin 1797 Other immigrants to Belize during the 1800s included Chinese sugar cane workers and Lebanese shopkeepers. Some expatriate Europeans and North Americans landedin Be- Beach at high noon in August: wilderness is a city park in Februar may want to forget about it. Those who are afraid to go outside their cozy ops when the temperature dips to 20 degrees should consider a Caribbe onl1 cruise instead. And those whose blizzard experience is the artificia snow machines on the Vermont slopes ought to limit themselves to the East Coast But for the adventurous, a winter va cation in one of the coldest, emptie and darkest places on earth can becom acure for a bad case of the urban wir ter blues It may cost a little money, and som: saic Scott discomfort is possible McCrea of the Fairbanks Conventio and Visitors Bureau. ——— SAINEB things to do herein the winter as in ar warm winter destination Fairbanks and the surrounding tur By D. HoldenBailey SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE dra have become a surprisingly popular winter tourism destination with over seas vacationers, especially Japanese least 30 feet aroundat its base. Its trunk was ines clung and Europeans. Every February and March, throngs of bundled-up foreigr to its sides. I felt a bit like Jac! hestared expectantly upwardat the beanstalk, waiting for the giant “But it’s well worth it. There are probably as mar The tree was of gargantuan proportions, at convoluted andtwisted, andthi It isnt for everyone Those for whomthe idea of snowy Exotic, Comfortable, Undiscovered Belize’s colorful past is best illustrated by its Scottish and English pirates. By the late thing in commonwith walking on Miami INDONESIA British colony was changed from British Honduras to Belize. It became independentin 1981 FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Awinter v cation in America’s freezer has some ers descendon the northernmost city ¢ the continent, but American winter tourists are still few and far between to come sliding down the gnarled trunk But I wasn’t expecting a giant — quite the opposite. | was waiting for the tarsier monkeys that slept in the tree. At four ounces. With Americans, Alaska’s winter they're one of the world’s tiniest primates has had a bad rap.” said McCrea That may be for good reason. Fai and the hugetree, with its many dark crey- banks’ winter temperatures will plun: ices, was a perfect place for the nocturnal creatures to spend the day. hours a day of a faint daylight and into the 40-below range with just fis feet of snow. But with about $500 wor of the right clothes — a goose-down There were six of us watchers, and two park rangers who wereacting as our guides. parka, several layers of thermal und Wehad come fromvarious points aroundthe wear and thick snow boots — the advet turous tourist is ready to enjoy a breathtaking natural setting globe and had endureda three-hourride in four-wheel-drive vehicles from Manado. most of it over a winding, tortuously rough dirt road. Wewereall thankful when wefinally reached the Tangkoko Nature Reserve and the one-hourhike through therain forest The northern lights alone are wort the 10-hour flight. Located just 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle, Fair banks happensto be built at alatitud was just about right for loosening up our sore andstiffened bodies. The shadows kept getting darker anddarker until the sun finally disappeared. You couldn't actually see it for the thick canopy @ See MANADO, H-7 where the northern lights appear at tl highest frequency in the world Also known as aurora borea 1 mysterious space phenomenon The gin-clear waters of Bunaken-Manado Tua Reserve harbor one ofthe richest marine ecosystems in the world caused by sun particles rubbing on the earth’s atmosphere and lighting 1) MSee YUKON, H-6 M See McCARTHEY, H-6 oa Yi untae OD & ; : i ' ‘ a | n tual SS ' et at | BwEe fo Labo (BE goomoncera OY Every day we offer over 2.0( the times youre more likel) he fivino frying reason you shoul pe frounsiand oaenas (MAE querer (ONT nine chy “yo hasrenn ON ro pres SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Call your travel agent or 466-7 abl us f » > 44. tal UVULILE |
