Welcome back to Gadlinks, your daily source for the best of the rest from the travel blogosphere. Here’s what’s going on today…
- Ever wondered what it’s like to cruise down the Amazon? Check out these photos from National Geographic photographer Bob Krist.
- Bootsnall details 8 alternatives to spending the holidays at home.
- “When you travel abroad a strange thing happens: The tables are turned,” writes Tom Swick in an article called “The Coolness of Strangers” over at World Hum. “The people you’ve always seen as outsiders-huddled with fellow immigrants, looking rather gauche-become the majority. Now it’s they who know the rules-how to dress, how to act, what to order-and you who are suddenly at a loss.”
- Upscale McDonald’s in midtown Manhattan decorated with modern Danish furniture, super-sized flat-screen TV’s.
- Los Angeles looking like North Korea.
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